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"When family honor has a foundation in its history, 
he will indeed be a man of strong individuality who 
will break away from its grasp." 



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THE EXPLANATION. 



Years ago there was put into possession of the writer a collection 
of family documents left by Aunt Mary McNab, of the Lowellville family, 
and Miartha Jane McNab, of the Poland Center family; and a promise 
was then given that the records of our ancestry, so far as known, 
would be written at favorable opportunity. The information thus 
obtained was supplemented later by Alfred J. Lowry of the Leipsic 
family and, to a less extent, by many other relatives. 

All the grandchildren of Robert Lowry being now dead, the tradi- 
tions and records here printed are offered in fulfillment of the promise 
to preserve suich knowledge as we have of those admiriable men and wo- 
men of our family who have passed away, but still survive in the lives 
and character of their descendants; and on the appeal of the many in- 
terested the history has been brought down to date and given to com- 
prehend six generations. 

L. H. E. LOWRY. 
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. 

N. B. The original manuscript has been revised at the h;and of 
Houston W. Lowry 
Carlsibad, N. M., 1921. 




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AN APPRECIATION 



Special recognition is due the author of the accompanying memoirs. 
The main record of his life is found in its appropriate place, all but the 
closing item prepared under his hand, but in view of pains with the his- 
tory he is deserving of more. 

He did not long survive the completion of his work with the records, 
and who else was so admirably fitted for the part or so concerned to see 
it accomplished? It is evident that he undertook the annals as a labor 
of love, and only intense personal interest could account for their laccu- 
racy and comprehensiveness. To collect the facts and put them in order 
made an immense task, and it occurs that but for him it would scarcely 
have been undertaken lat all. 

And the quality of the work lifts it high above routine. Any view of 
the pages discovers the mark of outright genius. The touch is not more 
vital, personal than literary. The sketches of pioneer life at the close of 
the print, forming a unique department of interest, are incident to our 
ancestry, but they offer rich appeal far outside immediate family circles 
and, independent of direct acquaintance, are fitted to set hearts aglow 
everywhere. 

"Hez" was a reserved nature, and he lived much apart. He was a stu- 
dent, a thinker, and in his practice of law he proved his rare ability as 
a counseller, but he was distinctively more than professional. The 
friends he made he kept, and in private he warmed and loosened into 
congenial, instructive, happy fellowship. He inherited the homestead, 
originally occupied by his grandfather and grandmother, William land 
Mary Houston Lowry, and at his death it was still his property; and the 
rich limestone deposit beneath its surface counted less with him than 
the fond sentiment of household lassociation. 

His life knew shadows, but at the sunset the sky was clear, bearing 
full promise of the bright eternal day. He belonged within the Cove- 
nant, assured and hallowed to him with the piety and prayerfulness of 
multiplied, antecedent generations, iand of his own faith and longing he 
was entrusted to the hands of the Covenant-keeping God and as heir of 
salvation was gathered to his fathers in peace. 

— H. W. L. 



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FAMILY TRADITIONS; 

The Huguenot 

The Scotch-Irish group of Lowry families in America, including 
our own family, trace their lineage iha;ck to the north of Ireland and 
have a wide spread tradition that their remote (ancestors were Huguenots 
driven out of France during the religious wars and persecutions follow- 
ing the Protestant Reformation. 

The m'Ost authentic statement of this family tradition is in a letter 
from Rev. J. W. S. Lowry of the Cianadian Presbyterian Church at 
Fitzroy, Ontario: 

"From what you say of your forefathers we are undoubtedly of 
the same stock. The parishes of Killyleagh, Killinchy and Kilmore all 
border on each other, and are full of Lowrys. Kilmore is my native 
place, and I have many relatives in Killyleagh and Killinchy. My father, 
William Lowry, was a merchant and for many years an elder in the 
church at Kilmore, and I was born and brought up in that congregation. 
My maternal grandfather, Rev. Joseph Lowry, was pastor in that parish 
over half a century. 

Our progenitors were French Huguenots, Protestant refugees, who 
at the time of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew in August, 1572, fled to 
Great Britain and subsequently to the Emerald Isle. This is the tradi- 
tion related for generations past by the fathers to the children at the 
firesides of the old land and in my childhood days it was fondly cher- 
ished in my old home." 

THE NAME TRADITION. 

A second family tradition is that our Huguenot ancestors, at the 
time of the Reformation, were living at "Lory" or in "Lory River settle- 
ment," the exact location being unknown. Our family name is most gen- 
erally said to ibe derived from this place, (wherever it may have been), 
from which our remote ancestors fled, seeking refuge in Scotland where 
John Knox and the Lords of the Congregation had already established 
Presbyterianism. 

In those former days, when seals were used instead of signatures, 
the device upon the Lory seal, according to a third tr:adition, consisted 
of a wreath between two branches of laurel. It may be of some interest 
to note that this emblem appears now as part of the ;armorlal bearings 
of several distinguished families in the province of Ulster. 

When learning became more general and writing supplanted seals, 
m;any variations arose in written surnames. Thus we find, in the case 
of our own name, Low-rie and Lau-rle in the Scotch shires of Lanark, 
Ayr and Kirkcubright, and Low-ry in the Irish counties of Tyrone, Fer- 
managh and Down, while Lo-ry still survives as the name of more dis- 
tant family stocks. 

Variation in the form of the root name is extensive. It occurs as 
Lowery, Lowary, Lourie, Loughrie, Loughrey, LaugTirie and possibly 
others. 

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AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT 

The parishes of Killinchy, Kilraore, and Killyle,agh in County Down, 
Ulster, are the first places that can be identified in our 
family history. Our direct ancestors settled in th'& parish of Killinchy 
about three hundred years ago, which corresponds in date with the first 
(1611) Scotch-Irish "Plantation" of Ulster. In process of time the 
Killinchy Lowrys increased and spread into the adjoining parishes of 
Killyleagh and Kilmore. 

The little parish of Killyleagh lies upon the western sh'ore of 
Strangford Lough. In this parish was born Robert Lowry, the first 
ancestor of whom we have definite knowledge. At Killyleagh he held 
an estate for the lives of three men. There he married and upon this 
estiat© he lived until, at the age of fifty-five, the estate was sold for 
enough to bring the family to America and establish them in another 
home upon the frontier of a new nation. 

The family documents, copies of which are appended, reproduced 
fac simile, show tbat this family were people of reputable connection, 
of unblemished character, sober, honest and industrious; that they were 
never concerned in any of the numerous rebellions that occured in Ire- 
land, and that all of them were members of the church at Kilmore. 
Robert Lowry, according to bis pastor's certificate, Wias a useful and 
confidential member of the session of that church, a man of piety and of 
the purest morals. 



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CHURCH LETTER 



The bearer, Robert Lowry, his wife and sons, have been many years 
regular members of my congregation, of very reputable connection and 
unblemished character, admitted to the sacrament of the Supper and eve- 
ry privilege suited to their circumstances, his sons being yet in a state of 
celiibacy. 

He himself has been a very useful and confidential member of our 
session, a man of piety and the purest morals. This family now sails for 
America where I hope they will soon prove themselves worthy of friendly 
attention in whatsoever worshipping society Providence may order their 
lot. 

2 9th of April, 1804. MOSES NEIDSON, D. D. P. D. H. 

Kilmore, County of Down, Ireland. 



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CIVIL CERTIFICATE 



WHEREAS Robert Lowry (the bearer hereof) intends going to 
America, together with his wife, Mary, his sons, Robert,, James and Wil- 
liam, his daughter Jane and his son-in-law, George Hutton. 

NOW, we do hereby certify that we know the bearer, the above nam- 
ed Robert Lowry, as also some of his family; that they were born in 
this Parish and have lived therein ever since; that they are people of a 
fair unblemished character and as far as we know or can hear they were 
never in any wise concerned in any rebellion in this country, but have al- 
ways behaved themselves soberly, honestly and industriously, and as such 
we recommend them. 

Given under our hands at Killyleagh, in the County of Down, and 
Kingdom of Ireland, this 24th day of April, 1804, 

Strangford District. FRED'X HAMILTON. 



THE POLAND CENTER CHURCH 

with which so many of our family were connected, was organized in the 
summer of 1804 under the Rev. James Duncan. This church was orig- 
inally of the Associate (Seceder) Presbyterian denomination. Its found- 
ers were the sturdy Scotch-Irish settlers, including the Lowrys, Stewarts, 
Houstons, McConnells McNabs, Cowdens, McBrides, and also Struthers, 
McCombs, and Gibsons. 

The congregation was organized and its summer meetings were held 
in "God's own temple," the primeval "woods." In the winters they met 
at the pioneer homes of the members. A log meeting house was built 
in 1810 on the south road, opposite the graveyard, a short distance from 
the "Center." The services were held in this structure until 1826 when 
a brick building took its place, and this in turn was replaced in 1849 by 
the frame church which we all remember. 

The first minister was followed by Rev. Robert Douglas, and he by 
that great pastor. Rev. David Goodwillie, who spent his life. ministering to 
the people of Poland Center, Deer Creek and Liberty, preaching to them 
the plain and simple gospel of faith and righteousness, and helping to lay, 
deep and solid, the spiritual foundations of a great community. 

The Union of 1858 brought the Associate and the Associate Reform- 
ed churches together into the United Presbyterian church, after which Po- 
land Center (Associate) and Mahoning (Associate Reformed) were united 
in one pastoral charge. In 1884 Xhe Poland Center site was abandoned, 
the building reproduced at Struthers and given to serve for many years 
the new congregation and retained still as United Presbyterian. 



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THE LEIPSIC FAlVniiY 



ROBERT LOWRY 

the oldest son of ROBERT LOWRY and MARY JOHNSTONE, was born 
at Killyleagh, March thirteenth, 1776; came to this country in 1804 
with his parents, and married, October thirteenth, 1813, Rebecca Stew- 
art, a sister of William Stewart of Coitsville. 

At the division of his father's estate in 1816, he obtained the west 
half of the Poland Center farm, on which the original dwelling house 
stood, and lived there until 183 6, when he sold this land, and in May, 
1837, joined in the westward movement in which many families chang- 
ed their residence to northwestern Ohio, where this branch of the family 
established a new home, in Liberty Township, Putnam county, Ohio, 
and southwest of the present site of Leipsic. 

He and his wife joined the Associate Church of Poplar Ridge, Aug- 
ust fifth, 1837, by certificate from the Associate church of Poland Center. 
He was soon elected an elder in the congregation, an office he filled with 
faithful service until his death. 

As to appearance, he was large, tall and square-shouldered, full- 
faced and wore a full beard, was genial in disposition and popular with 
all. He enjoyed reading and is said to have been the best educated 
member of the family. 

A few months after the death of his wife, June ninth, 184 6, he 
went to live with iiis daughter, Mary Lowry (MoConnell), until his 
death, August twenty-seventh, 1848. 

He is buried in the McConnell cemetery three miles south-west of 
Leipsic. 



REBECCA STEWAHT 

was remotely descended from the Stewarts of Scotland and more imme- 
diately from a John Stewart who settled (1665) in County Down, from 
which his grandson Samuel emigrated (1735) to Lancaster County, Pa. 

The father of Rebecca w,as Roibert Stewart (1732-1811) the third 
son of Samiiel, and her mother was Sarah Stewart of Chester County, 
Pa. Robert Stewart and Sarah Stewart were married in 1765 and pur- 
chased lands on Marsh Creek near Gettysburg, Adams County, Pa., where 
Rebecca Stewart was born in 1786 or 1787, the youngest of ten children, 
and judging from her father's will seems to have been a favo.ed child. 

Her mother died when the girl was ten years of age. She re- 

mained in the home until her father's death, 1811, after which she came 
to Coitsville, where she met Robert Lowry, and on October thirteenth, 
they were married. Until May, 1837, she and her husband lived at 
Poland Center, moving from there to their new home in Putnam couTr- 
ty where she spent the remainder of her life, dying June ninth, 1846. 
She lies buried in the McConnell cemetery by the side of her husband. 

Those who knew her, rememiber her as a woman of remarkable 
activity, very bright and energetic; possessing a fine character and dis- 
position; loved by those of her own house and admired by a wide circle 
of friends. 

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THE COITSVn^LE STEWARTS 

William Stewart, (17 65-1841), of Coitsville, whose family were 
closely related by marriage to so many members of our family, was the 
oldest of ten children of Rolbert and Sarah Stewart of Adams County, 
Pa. He married (1799) his cousin, iMary Stewart (1776-1851) 'of 
Dauphin County, Pa. About 1802 the six brothers settled in north- 
western Coitsville ,and south-western Hubbard townships, where their 
youngest sister, Rebecca, who married Robert "Lowry, joined them later, 
with her older sister, Sarah. 

William Stewart settled in Coitsville, and William Houston, Joseph 
Jackson and William Stewart were the first Board of Trustees of Coits- 
ville Township. 

This family were members of the Associate Church in Adams Coun- 
ty, and had heard Rev. David Goodwillie's father preach when they were 
young men. They were lamong the founders of the Liberty Church at 
Seceder Corners which was organized (1805) by the Rev. James Dun- 
can of Mahoning, William Stewart of Coitsville and James Davidson of 
Youngstown, being the first elders. 

William and Sarah Stewart had eight children, of whom the oldest, 
Sarah, ma.ried Johnstone Lowry of Poland Center; the third, Robert, 
married Jane Dowry of Lowellville, and the youngest, Margaret, married 
Robert Lowry, also of the Lowellville family. These marriages of the 
Lowrys and Stewarts are examples Of the inter-marriages among pioneer 
neighbors by which many of the later generations of our family have be- 
come related in several different ways. 



THE LEIPSTC LOWRYS 

This branch of the family came to Putnam County, (organized 
1834) while it was yet in its infancy. They found a primeval forest, 

in the midst of which they established their home. The Indians were 
their neighbors and their friends. The soil was of the rich black variety 
v/hich has since brought fame to this section of Ohio because of its fer- 
tility. They cleared the land and tilled the soil, working with a per- 
severance and determination that gave their children an inheritance of 
broad acres. 

They soon identified themselves with the interests of Leipsic. 
Coming to this place while the children were yef young, the family grew 
into the very life of the community and here, in turn, established their 
homes; gave officers to church and county, and won for themselves 
places of leadership. Here these children of Robert and Rebecca Low- 
ry grew to maturity: 

R - I. Robert Johnson Lowry. R - III. Mary Johnson Lowry. 
R - II. James Lowry. R - IV. Sarah Jane Lowry. 

The original home farm has passed into the hands of strangers, and 
few of the des-cendants live in the vicinity. Merchants, farmers and somt 
of the professions are represented among later generations. In many 
states of the union we find their Homes preserving in the main the tra- 
ditions of a loyal Scotch-Irish ancestry. 

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THE POPLAR RIDGE CHURCH 

w,as organized on the fourth Sabbath of October, 1836, by Rev. Samuel 
Wilson, Missionary of the Presbtery of Miami, who visited the settlement 
of Associate 'Church memibers. Among the charter members admitted 
were James Strain and family on certificate from the Poland Center 
Church land Nicholas McConnell and others from the Associate Congre- 
gation of Newton, Portage County, Ohio. 

On Saturday November fifth, 183 6, at the house of David Hostetter, 
was held an election of elders which resulted in the choice of Nicholas 
McConnell and James Strain who had been ordained in the congrega- 
tions from which they came. On the following day, at the house of 
Hugh Ramsey, these elders were installed, and the members agreed that 
this church should be the Associate Congregation of Poplar Ridge and a 
building of poplar logs was erected. 

On August fifth, 1837, at a meeting of the session, Rev. James 
Wallace, moderator pro tem, at the home of Nicholas McConnell, the 
following members, Robert Lowry, and his wife, Rebecca Lowry and 
their son, Robert J. Lowry, were received on certificate from Poland 
Center and the other members of the family united with this congrega- 
tion within the next two or three years, and many of the Putnam County 
Lowrys and their family connections have been officers, teachers and 
active members of this congregation. 

The location of the church was changed (185 6) from McConneirs 
Corners to Leipsic, and since the Union the organization (1858) has been 
the United Presbyterian Church of Leipsic. 



R — I. 

ROBERT JOHNSON LOWRY 

was born September tenth, 1816, at Poland Center. He married, De- 
cember twenty-sixth, 1838, Olive A. McConnell. During the early part 
of his life he was a farmer near LeipiSic land ran a store on his farm in 
connection therewith. In 1850 he moved to Leipsic opening a general 
store which he owned for several years. In 1861 he moved bis family 
to Urbana, Ohio, conducting a similar business there. He died at Ur- 
bana, April thirteenth, 1862, of rheumatism of the heart. His body 
was brought to Leipsic, and buried in the McConnell cemetery. 

R. J. Lowry was a man of large stature, standing six feet two 
inches, broad shouldered and well proportioned. Like his father he en- 
joyed reading and spent his spare time in this way. He was a lover of 
music and with Isaac McConnell his sister's husband led the singing in 
the old Associate Church at McConnell's corners and afterward at Leip- 
sic. 

He was sociable, hospitable and public-spirited. In politics he 
was a Repuiblican and filled for some eight or ten years the office of 
Justice of the Peace. He served the church as deacon for several years, 
and both he and his wife were members of the Leipsic United Presby- 
terian Church, and the members of his family, for fhe most part, still 
adhere to this faith. 

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MARIA LOUISA LOWRY 
R — I — 2. 

was born September twenty-ninth, 1851, and began teaching school at 
the age of sixteen. She m,arrie(i, Miarch eleventh, 1869, Joseph Strain 
Emery of Carrol County, Ohio. She graduated (1884) from the Eclec- 
tic Medical College, Cincinnati, and practiced medicine at Leipsic until 
her death, August twenty-sixth, 1962. She was a member of the State 
and National Medical Associations. 

Her husband, (born December twenty-ninth, 1844) was graduated 
(1885) from the Ohio Dental College, Cincinnati, and practised dentis- 
try at Leipsic. He served (18 65) on the gunboat. Great Western, on 
the Mississippi. He was a member of the G. A. R. and Knights of *Py- 
thias. After the death of his wife he lived at Canton, Ohio, where he 
died May eighteenth, 1912. 

Both were members of the Leipsic United Presbyterian Church but 
transferred their membership to the Leipsic Methodist Episcopal Church 
and both are buried in the Sugar Ridge Cemetery at Leipsic. 

They had two daughters: 

R-l-2-a — Myrtle Eugenia Emery, attended Ohio Weslegan Univer- 
sity lat Delaware, and Oberlin College, Ohio. She resides at Canton, 
Ohio. 

R-l-2-b — Anna Mae Emery, a graduate in physical training at 
Oberlin, College, and of Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati, is the wife 
of Dr. William A. White, President of the Big Four Clay Company, Can- 
ton, Ohio. 



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R — I — 3. 
CALVIN STEWART LOWRY 

■was born September thirteenth, 18 54, at Leipsic, was married October 
eighteenth, 1877, to Addie Irwin of Grand Rapids, Ohio. He is in the 
hardware business at iMicClure, Henry County, Ohio, where he has served 
as village councilman and township treasurer. He and his wife are 
members of the United Presbyterian Church, and he is a rtiember of the 
Modern Woodmen of America, of which Lodge he has been clerk for nine 
years and one of the managers for thirteen years. 

Three children: 

R-I-3-a Gracie Lowry, born Dec. 27, 1879, at Leipsic, O., and 
deceased Feb. 2 3, 1881. 

R-I-3-b Alma Lowry, born March 11, 1882, at Leipsic, married 

Clyde Emory Wilcox Oct. 15, 1905, who is an extensive 
fiarmer and 'breeder of fancy stock They have one 
child: Marguerite Wilcox, born May 12, 1911, at Mc- 
Clure, Ohio. 

R-1-3-C Robert Earl Lowry. Jan. 21, 1921, he married Loraine 
Shepard, of Toledo, O. He is in the hardware business 
with his father, the firm bearing the name of C. S. Lowry 
and son. He is a memiber of the M. W. of A. and is a 
thirty-two degree Mason. He served in the larmy dur- 
ing the late war with Eighty Third Division from Sept. 
17, 1917, to Feb. 16, 1919; saw ten months' service in 
the A. E. F. and reached the rank of corporal. 



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R — I — 4. 

MARY A. LOWRY, 

w,as born October sixth, 1857. She lived at Leipsic with her mother 
until the death of the latter in 1904. After her mother's death she 
lived first at Wichita, Kansas, and afterwards at Long Beach, Califor- 
nia. On December 13, 1916, she married Silas H. Mitchell of Leipsic, 
Ohio, but later of California. They are now living at Orosi, California, 
on a fruit farm. 



R — I — 5, 
ALFRED JOHNSON LOWRY, 

was born Feibruary twenty-sixth, 1860, and married September twentj* 
fifth, 1884, iMartha Lenhart, of Leipsic, daughter of Henry S. and Adaline 
(Bracht) Lenhart, a family of Dutch descent. He was in fhe drug 
business (1882-1897) at Leipsic; associated (1897-1907) with the Buck- 
eye Stave Company, cooperage manufacturers, at Romeo, Michigan; 
vice president (1907-1915) of the Lowry-Brownlee Co., lumber manufac- 
turers at Cisco, Murray County, Georgia, residing (1907-1912) at Car- 
tersville, Georgia, and removing (1913) to Deitroit, Michigan. He and 
his family are members of the First United Presibyterian Church of De- 
troit. lA Republican in politics, he was township treasurer for two 
terms at Ledpsic, a Democratic district. 

They have two daughters: 
R-I-5-a Ethel Lowry, a graduate of the Romeo, Michigan, High 

School and of Monmouth College, Illinois, (A. B.) also 

graduating from the Vocal Department of the Monmouth 

'Conservatory of Music. 
R-I-5-b Reba Lowry, a graduate of the Cartersville, Georgia, 

High School, is a student in Monmouth (Illinois) College. 



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B — I — 6. 
JAMES WILLIS LOWRY 

was born November thirtieth, 1862, and married September twenty-fifth, 
1884, Nellie Lenhart, of Leipsic. They are members of the United 
Presbyterian church, in which he has been an elder since 1889. He is 
a farmer at Leipsic, Ohio, has been master of the Grange, since 1908, 
and often called to serve as administrator of estates, guardian of chil- 
dren and in other positions of trust. 

They have two sons: 

R-I-6-a Robert Serge Lowry, a farmer, Ledpsic, Ohio, graduated at 
Leipsic High School, and attended Monmouth College, (Illi- 
nois,) for three years. He married Miary Elizabeth Ander- 
son of Monmouth, Illinois, a graduate in music of Mon- 
mouth College. 

R-l-6-b Henry Forest Lowry, High School student, Leipsic, Ohio. 



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i R — n. 

JAMUS LOWRY, 

the second son of Robert and Reibecca (Stewart) Lowry, was born April 
nineteenth, 1818, at Poland Center, and moved with his parents to Put- 
nam County in 1837. He spent the early part of his life on the farm, 
and later moved to Leipsic where he lived until 1861. He was married 
April fourteenth, 1848, to Jane McKelvy. 

He spent some time in Illinois in 1856 or 1857. Later he return- 
ed home and there lived until the beginning of the war between the 
states, at which time he enlisted. 

His war record is as follows: James Lowry was mustered in August 
twenty-sixth, 1861, at Camp Noble, Tiffin, Ohio, 49th Reg. O. V. I., Co. 
"I", and was engaged in the following battles: Shiloh, Tennessee- Cor- 
inth, Mississippi; Lawrenceburg, Stone River, Liberty Gap, Tennessee; 
Chickamauga, Georgia. Was captured al Chikamauga, September twen- 
tieth, 18 63, while on field hospital duty and taken to Andersonville Pris- 
on where he died May first, 1864. 



R — ni. 

MART JOfHNSON LOWRY, 

daughter of Robert and Rebecca (Stewart) Lowry, was born at Poland 
Center, April seventh, 1820. On Decemiber twenty-fifth, 1839, she was 
united in marriage to Isaac McConnell, who had come to Putnam Coun- 
ty with his father, Nicholas McOonnell, from Portage County, Ohio, in 
1836. Isaac MoConnell was born November twentieth, 1817, and died 
November third, 1857. 

Mary Johnson Lowry before leaving Poland Center had, at the age 
of fifteen, united with the Associate Church under the pastorate of the 
Rev. David Goodwillie, and she with her husiband became charter mem- 
bers of the Poplar Ridge Church. They with their children were sel- 
dom missed from their pew in the old church which stood on the corner 
adjoining the "McConnell Cemetery." In the house of worship she and 
her husband were active workers and she rendered faithful service in 
family, church and Sabbath school for many years, and was honored by 
the respect and love of the community. After the death of her hus- 
band she remained on the McConnell farm until the children were grown 
and married. She then moved (1877) to Leipsic where she lived until 
1904, when she went to live in the home of her teon, W. J. McConnell. 
where she died January twentieth, 1909. Her remains were brought 
back to Leipsic, and her body laid to rest within sight of her old home, In 
the McOonnell cemetery, where her husiband had lain for fifty-two years. 
Six children were born to them of whom the first, Ruth Elmina, 
and the fourth, Elmina Ruth, died in childhood 

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R III 1. 

REBECCA ANNE McCONNELL 

was born January tenth, 1843, and died June nineteenth. 1857. She 
married, first, October tenth, 1863, Hiram L. Reed, son of Safford and 
Elnore Reed formerly of near Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, who was 
also of the early settlers in Putnam Ooiunty, 

Hiram Reed enlisted as a Soldier of the "Civil War" August 
twenty-third, 18 61, in Company "I" 'f9th Reg. O. V. I.; was engaged 
in several battles and was discharged in 1863 being disabled from a 
wound received at the battle of Stone River. He died Miarch 18 69. 
He belonged to the Masonic order. 

Rebecca Anne was married, second, to Henry S. Lenhart Septem- 
ber twenty-eighth, 1871. She had no children of tier own, but, judg- 
ing from the respect, affection and kindness shown her by her seven 
step-children, her life was not spent in vain. She was a member of 
the United Presbyterian Church at Leipsic and lies buried in the Mc- 
Connell Cemetery. 



R — III — 2. 

LYDIA JANE McCONNELL 

was born February twenty-seventh, 1845, and married May twenty-first, 
1868, Thomas J. Miller of Putnam County. 

During their early married life Mr. Miller was a farmer in summer 
and school teacher in winter, and later in life has ibeen a lecturer at 
farmers' institutes and a real estate dealer. They have spent the greater 
part of their life in Ohio, living some six years in Michigan, and are now 
living in Bowling Green, Ohio. 

Both Mr. and Mrs. Miller are active members in the Presbyterian 
church. Three children were born to them, Charles Eugene (1870), 
George Al'bert (1872) and Isaac LeRoy (1874) all of whom died in early 
infancy. 



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R _ III _ 3. 

SARAH OLI\^ 3fcCONNEL,Ii 

was born October ninth, 1853, and married October twenty-first, 1875, 
William A. Bell, who was born May twenty-ninth, 1852. The early part 
of their married life was spent on a farm, but later they moved to 
Leipsie where she died March twenty-ninth, 189 6, and was buried in the 
Sugar Ridge Cemetery. Both she and her husband were active members 
of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. Bell is now in the real estate 
and insurance business at Leipsie, Ohio. 

To them three children were born: 

R-III-3-a Effa Bell, wife of W. R. Lewis, telegraph operator, 

Leipsie, Ohio. 

R-III-3-b William Clayton Bell, Leipsie, Ohio, is a conductor on 

the N. Y. C. .and St. L. Ry. and married Nina Belle Poltz. 

R-111-3-C Fred Mark Bell, Leipsie, Ohio. 



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R — III — 4. 

WILLIAM JOHNSON McCONNELL 

was born October fifth, 1855, and married March eighth, 1877, 
Louisa E, Hollabaugh of Putnam county. He has been a farmer all 
his life having lived in Putnam County until 1888, in which year he 
moved to Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana, where he lived for several 
yeiars when he moved to Columbia City, Indiana, his present residence. 
He has served for the past eight years on the Advisory Board. Both 
he and his wife belong to the Christian church. 
They have five children. 

R-III-4-a Bertha L. McConnell, wife of V. W. King, farmer, Col- 

umbia City, Indiana. 

R-III-4-b Isaac W. McConnell, farmer, Churubusco, Indiana, is 

also a Director of the Farmers' Bank of Churubusco. He 
married Oma Diffendafer. 

R-III-4-C George F. McConnell, Churubusco, Indiana, married 

Lilah M. Peno. 

R-III-4-d Mary C. McConnell, wife of Sidney E. Ort, merchant 

Churubusco, Indiana. 

R-lll-4-e Ross A. McConnell, a student in Churubusco High School 



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R — IV. 
SARAH JANE LOWRY 

was born at Poland Center, Decennber twenty-third, 1821, and married 
Raliegli Peckinpaugh, ,a farmer in Putnam County on December twenty- 
seventh, 1843. She lived on their farm south-west of Deipsic until the 
spring of 1872 when she moved to Brown County, Kansas, and there 
died April fifteenth, 18 88. She is buried in the Hiawatha Cemetery, 
Hiawatha, Kansas. She united with the Poplar Ridge Associate Church 
July thirty-first, 1840, and was a member of that church until the union 
and afterwards of the United Presbyterian Church, 

Raliegh Peckinpaugh, son of Adam Peckinpaugh, was born April 
twelfth, 1811, near Wooster, Ohio. He came to Putnam county early 
in life and died September twelfth, 1859. 

They had six children: 



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ROBERT JOHN PECKINPAUGH 

was born May fourth, 184 5. He married Samantha Edgcomb, Septem- 
ber twenty-third, 18 67, in Putnam County land moved (18 68) to Brown 
County, Kansas. He spent several years there on his farm and then 
moved to Hiawatha, the county seat of Brown County, where they are 
now living. 

They have five children: 

R-IV-l-a Coria Jane Peckinpaugh, wife of John M. Veach, farmer, 

Ottawa, Kansas. 

R-IV-l-b Emma May Peckinpaugh, a graduate of Hiawatha Acade- 

my, married Carlton Berry, farmer and stockman, Wash- 
ington, Kansas. 

R-IV-l-c Humphrey R. Peckinpaugh, farmer, Hiawatha, Kansas, 

married Lillian Phinney. 

R-IV-l-d Grace E. Peckinpaugh, a graduate of the Hiawatha High 

School, married Newton Reynolds, Contractor, Hiawa« 
tha, Kans,as. 

R-IV-l-e Bertha iBlanche Peckinpaugh, a graduate of the Hiawatha 

High School, marled LeRoy Howard, farmer, Hiawatha, 
Kansas. 



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B — IV — 2. 
ALBERT STEWART PECKINPAUGH 

was born August twenty-second. 1848, and married March 1874, Maggie 
Samuel. They had one son. Homer Peckiupaugh, who died when about 
two years old. His first wife died in 1881, and "he married again in 
1885 Emma Beriy oif Macomb, Illinois. He resides in Chicago, Illi- 
nois, is a city salesman and a member of the Masonic order. They 
have no children. 



R — IV — 3. 
JAMES EDWARD PECKINPAUGH 

was born October second, 1861, at Leipsic and married, February twelfth, 
1874, Eva Sherrard of Leipsic. He was a farmer for several years but 
Is. BOW living in Leipsic where he has held several township and village 
offices and is a miember of the County Pair Board. He is an Odd Fel- 
low, and he and his wife are Methodists. They have four children: 

R-IV-3-a Charles W. Peckinpaugh, farmer, Leipsic, Ohio, is a grad- 

uate of the Leipsic High School and married Effie M. 
Campbell. 

R-IV-3-b Myrtle B. Peckinpaugh, a graduate of Leipsic High School 

married G. W. Baughman, pharmacist, Gilboa, Ohio. 

R-IV-3-C Edward L. Peckinpaugh, a graduate of Leipsic High School 

was a pharmacist for several years but is now a farmer at 
Leipsic. He married Etta Darling. 

R-IV-4-d Chester ,M. Peckinpaugh, a graduate of the Indi,ana Tri. 

State Normal College, Department of Pharmacy, married 

Bertha K. Bell, and is a pharmacist at Bedford, Indiana. 



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R _ IV — 4. 

MARY MELISSA PECKINPAUGH 

was born July nineteenth. 1853, at Leipsic, Ohio, She taught school 
at the age of sixteen and moved with her mother to Brown County, Kan- 
sas, in 1872, where she married. March fourteenth, 1872, Samuel M. 
Price of Falls City, Neb. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church and now lives at Santa Barbara, California. Her husband, 
Samuel M. Price, was born (1840) in Essex, New Jersey. He moved 
with his parents to Illinois and taught school. Enlisted (18 61) in Co. 
"F" 14th Reg. 111. Vol. Inf.; wounded at Shiloh, honorably discharged. 
He was graduated L. L. B. (1866) from the University of Michigan at 
Ann Arbor and practiced law in Illinois, Missouri and Nebraska; moved 
(1883) to Santa Barbara; elected district attorney and afterwards po- 
lice judge in which office he was serving at the time of his death 
(19 01). He was in early life a Methodist tout later a Roman Catholic. 

Their children are: 

R-IV-4-a Joseph J. Price, lawyer, Santa Barbara, California, was 

elected police judge at his father's death and held office 
until his death (1908) 

R-IV-4-b Edith Price, wife of John W. Barnes, Santa Biarbara, 

California. 

R-IV-4-C Grace Manning Price, wife of Dwight Murphy of the P. 

H. Murphy Company, Pittsburg, Pa. 

R-IV-4-d Francis Price, Santa Barbara, California, a graduate 

(A. B.) of Stanford University, California, and (D. J.) 
of its law department. 



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R — IV — 5 

REBECCA ELIZABETH PECKINPAUGH 

was born July twenty-third, 1855, and moved (1872) with her mother 
to Brown County Kansias. She married Isaac Dilley, December tenth, 
1873, a pharmacist and farmer, who was born in Richland County, Ohio, 
December twenty-sixth, 1845 and died May sixteenth, 1911. He enlist- 
ed, (1863) a corporal in Co, "H" 130th Reg. Ind. Vol. and was discharg- 
ed in 1865. He was a member of the G. A. R., and both were members 
'Of the Christian Church. They have five children: 

R-IV-5-a Stella Cora Dilley, a graduate of the Hiawatha College, mar- 

ried Lloyd C. Miller, hardware salesman, San Francisco, 
California. 

R-IV-5-b Lulu S. Dilley, a graduate of the Hiawatha College married 

Ranee D. Hammond, automobile salesman, San Diego, Cal. 

R-IV-5-C Emma Alberta Dilley, a graduate of Hiawatha High School, 

married Curtis Finley, druggist, Hiawatha, Kansas. 

R-IV-5-d Benjamin Harrison Dilley, San Diego, California. 

R-IV-5-e Ralph B. Dilley, San Diego, California. 



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R — IV — 6. 
ISAAC JAMES PECKINPAUGH 

was born April eighteenth, 1858, and moved wi/h his mother to Kans,as 
in 1872. He married Susan A. Sickles of Savannah, Missouri, on Jan- 
uary tenth, 1881. He was in the insurance and real estate business lat 
Ottawa, Kansas, but at length removed to Greeley, Colorado, and engaged 
in stock raising. At present he is living ,at Lyons, Kansas. He and 
his wife are members of the Christian Church. 

They have five children. 
R-IV-6-a Mattie Pearl Peckinpaugh, a graduate of Ottawa High 

School, married Orville Cully, who is cashier of Saxman 
State Bank, Saxman, Kansas, and they have one child; Clar- 
ence Henry Cully, born April 2 6, 1915. 
R-IV-6-b Everett I. Peckinpaugh, shoe merchant. Falls City, Nebras- 

ka, a graduate of Ottawa High School, married Florence 
Wylie, Falls City. He was in the recent war service. 
They have one child: Robert Johnson Peckinpaugh, born 
April 27, 1920. 

R-IV-6-C Earl R. Peckinpaugh, a graduate of Ottawa High School, is 

proprietor of Peckinpaugh Tire and Rubber Co., Lyons, 
Kansas. He was in the recent war service and was dis- 
charged after declaration of Ihe armistice. Jan. 31, 1920, 
he married Helen Brown, who was born Sept. 15, 1900, at. 
Pretty Prairie, Kansas, daughter of Albert and Sarah Fran- 
ces Brown, originally of Illinois. 

R-IV-6-d Edgar A. Peckinpaugh, graduate of Ottawa High School, 

married October 9, 1920, Ardis Vasooncells, who was born 
June 21, 1901, at Lyons, Kansas, of parents originally of 
Jacksonville, 111. Edgar is with the Peckinpaugh compa- 
ny of Lyons. 

R-IV-6-e Geneva Hazel Peckinpaugh, graduate of Greeley High 

School, Colorado. She was married July 31, 1919, to 
Robert E. Wade, who was born Aug. 24, 1895. They live 
at Ruskin, Nebraska, and their occupation is farming. 
Mr. Wade was in the world war service. He enlisted at 
first call and stayed in France till July 192 0. 



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THE POLAND CENTER FAMILY. 



JOHNSTONE LO^VTRY 

JOHNSTONE LOW'RY, the fourth child of ROBERT LOWRY and 
MARY JOHNSTONE, was born September tenth, 1781, in Ireland. 

He came to this country some time prior to ithe others of the fam- 
ily and located the farm at Poland Center. His selection for this duty 
shows that the family had confidence in his good judgment. 

On Decemiber twenty-fifth, 1817, he was married to SARAH 
STEWART. He was a farmer, and resided all his life on the east ihialf 
of the original farm at Poland Center. 

He served for six months during the War of 1812 and was stationed 
at Fort Meigs. 

He was a member of the Poland Center Church, and on March 
thirty-first, 18 34, was chosen as elder of that congregation, in which 
office he served until his deiath. 

He had a good common school education and was a good singer. 
He was six feet in height, and weighed one hundred and ninety pounds, 
and was a social, friendly mian, thrifty and clear headed. 

He died May first, 1841 of typhoid fever, the first case known in 
this part of the country, and is buried at Poland Center. 



SARAH STEWART 



the wife of JOHNSTONE LOWRY, was born in Adams County, Pa., 
March twenty-eighth, 1800. She was the daughter of William Stewart 
(1765-1841) of Coitsville and was the eldest of eight children. She 
was married on Christmas Day, 1817, to JOHNSTONE LOWRY, by 
William Houston, a Justice of the Peace, and thus became a sister-in- 
law of her launt Rebecca Stewart Lowry, She .passed her married life 
and widowhood at Poland Center where she died of paralysis on March 
twenty-fifth, 1872, and is buried at Poland Center, of which church she 
also was a member. She is remembered as a pleasant, kindly an"d friendly 
woman. 



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THE POLAND CENTER LOWRYS. 

JOHNSTONE LOWRY and SARAH STEWART had nine children 
of whom the second, Robert Stewart L-owry; the third, Margaret Ann 
Lowry; the sixth, Samuel Lowry; and the seventh, Thomas Johnson 
Lowry, died in childhood, and the youngest, Margaret Ann Lowry, second, 
(1839-1876) died unmarried. 

The four surviving children were: 

J. I. Miary Lowry. 

J. II. William Stewart Lowry. 

J. III. Martha Jane Lowry. 

J. IV. Robert Lowry. 

This family continued to occupy the east one hundred acres of the 
original Ro,bert Lowry farm. Here the surviving children grew to man- 
hood and womanhood, received their education at the Poland Center 
School on the north-east corner of the Center and attended the old Po- 
land 'Center Church a few rods down the south road. In 1859 the two 
sons bought the interest of their sisters in their father's homestead farm 
which they divided equally. Rohert Lowry received the west fifty acres 
and William S. Lowry received the east fifty acres, which descended in 
his family until 1885 when it was sold. By this sale the last oif the ori- 
ginal homestead farm passed from the Lowry family and the younger 
generation of the Poland Center Family were dispersed to seek new 
homes and try their fortunes in other places, many of them in f,ar distant 
states and one, at least, to spend his life in a foreign country. 



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J — I. 

MARY LOAVRY 

the oldest child of JOHNSTONE LOWRY and SARAH STEWART, was 
born June fifiteenth, 1821, at Poland Center and Wjas married October 
fourteenth, 1849, to iSamuel Finney (1813-1876) <af Mt. Pleasant, Jef- 
ferson County, Ohio. After their marriage they lived until 1863 on a 
farm at Mit. Pleasant ,and then moved to a farm near Mansfield, Ohio, 
where she resided until her death. She and her husband were members 
of the First United Presbyterian Church of 'Mansfield in which her hus- 
band was an elder Ifrom 18 68 until his death. Miary Lowry Finney died 
May tenth, 1892, and both are buried in the Mansfield Cemetery. It is 
said of her that she helped her motlier raise the younger children and 
was ever ia comfort and a blessing to those around her. 
They had six children. 



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WttLIAM LOWRY FINNEY 

was born November thirteenth, 1850, in Jefferson County, Ohio. He 
attended the Lexington .Ohio, Academy. On February twelfth, 1874, 
he married Elizabeth Rosella Martin of Mansfield. They lived on a 
farm until 1889 when they moved into Miansfield where he engaged in 
the stove business but is now retired. He is an elder in the Mansfield 
United Presbyterian Church, of which his family are members. 
They have five children: 

J-I-l-a Mary F. Finney, born 1874, deceased 1886. 

J-I-l-b James Merle Finney, Steel Barrel Manufacturer, Cleveland, 

Ohio, born 1876, married Carrie E. Proctor 1902. 
One child, Harold P. Finney, born 1904. 

J-I-l-c Eleanor Ethel Finney, born 1878, married James A. Alild, 

farmer, Gallon, Ohio. Six children: 
Margaret, born 1901, died 1902. 
William born in 1903. 
Edith G., born in 1906. 
Dorothy R., born in 1908. 
Martha L., born in 19 lO. 
Richard, born in 1915. 

J-I-l-d Lelia A. Finney, born 1881, died 1886. 

J-I-l-e Samuel R. Finney, born 1883, died 1886, 

J-I-l-f William Ramsey Finney, born 1886, agent for The Prudential 
Life Insurance Company, Cleveland, Ohio, married Flor- 
ence Grove in 1914. 



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J-I-l-g Luella Rosella Finney, born 1888, married Homer B. Braden, 

farmer, Galion, Ohio, in 1912. Three children: 
William, born 1913, died 1913. 
Horace born 1914, 
Elizabeth, born in 1917. 

J-I-l-h Helen Margaret 'Finney, born 1894, married Howard McClure 

in 1920. 



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J ■— 1 — 2. 
THOMAS JEFFERSON FINMEY. D. ». 

a distinguished missionary of the United Presbyterian Church, was born 
September twelfth, 1852. He was graduated (A. B. 1878) at Mustcin- 
gum (Ohio) College. Post graduate (1878-1879) at Princeton (N.J.) 
University in Philosophy and Literature, and was graduated (1882) at 
Xenia (Ohio) United Presbyterian Theological Seminary . He was li- 
censed (1881) by Mansfield Presbytery and ord,ained (1882) as a mis- 
sionary. He married June twenty-ninth, 1882, Nannie McClenahan of 
Fairview, Guernsey County, Ohio. His wife is a graduate (A. B. 1876) 
of Muskingum College and a post graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, Mass. 
They entered the mission field in November, 18 82, and were stationed at 
Cairo, Egypt (1882-1883), Mansoorah, Egypt (1883-1897) and had gen- 
eral supervision (1897-1915) of the United Presbyterian Mission at Al- 
exiandria, Egypt, where he died June twenty-third 1915. 

They had six children of whom Mary Grizella, born May 1883, the 
oldest, David Dale, born September 8, 1887, twin brother of Davida, and 
William Lowry, born 1891, the youngest, died in infancy. 

J-I-2-a Ethel Frances Finney, a graduate of Westminster (Pa.) Col- 

lege, married Aug. 4, 1913, is the wife of Harry Swayne 
Lybarger, attorney-at-law, Coshocton, Ohio. There are 

three children: 
Nancy, born Sept. 17, 1915. 
Edwin Lewis, born Nov. 16, 1917, 
Davida Margaret, born Jan. 21, 1921. 

J-I-2-b Davida Margaret Finney, a graduate of Westminster (Pa.) 

College. She was appointed missionary in 1914 and was 
sent out in January 1916. She is stationed at Cairo, Egypt, 
and is to be addressed in care of the American Mission. 

J-I-2-C Clarence McClenahan Finney, a graduate of Westminster 

(Pa.) College in 1911 and was also a student in Rush Med- 
ical School, Chicago, Illinois, won the degree of M. A. 
from Chicago University in June 1918, and is a practicing 
physician and surgeon in Springfield, Ohio. He married 
Miss Isabel Elliot Dec. 23, 1920. 



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J — I — 3. 

MARGARET JANE FINNEY 

was born October third, 18 54, and on October fifteenth, 1874, was mar- 
ried to William Patterson Martin, who was born June 14, 1851. They 
lived on a farm at Ontario, Ohio, till 1887 when they moved to M;ansfleld. 
Theire her husband did a transfer business until 1892, when the firm of 
M,artin & Son engaged in the furniture business. Both are members of 
the United Presbyterian church, and Mr. Martin became an elder in 189 5 
to serve continuously. They have eleven children: 
J-I-3-a Minnie Agnes Martin, born July 25, 1875, married William 

Ewing Shane, Dec. 2 0, 189 9, shipping clerk, Mansfield, 

born Oct. 10, 1871. 
J-l-3-b Samuel Finney Martin, born August 14, 1876, married, March 

15, 1899, Vinnie Bell Smith, who was born Aug. 1, 1876. 

He is in the furniture business. 

There are two children: 

Ethel May Martin, born April 21, 1906; died May 26, 1907. 

Edwin Smith Martin, born April 19, 1908. 
J-I-3-C James Ramsey Martin, traveling salesman, born May 2, 1879, 

married June 20, 1914, Mina Schwister, who was born Feb. 

2 8, 188 6. They have one child. 

Margaret Helene Martin, born Oct. 25, 1918. 
J-I-3-d Eleanor Elizabeth Martin, born April 11, 1878, deceased May 

2, 1878. 
J-I-3-e Walter LeRoy Martin, born Nov. 11, 1880, deceased April 2 9, 

1886. 
J-I-3-f Maurice Ewing Martin, a graduate of Mansfield high sdhool 

and a traveling salesman, was born Nov. 12, 1881. 
J-I-3-g Mary Luella Martin, born April 2 7, 18 8'3, deceased May 2, 

1886. 
J-I-3-h William Houston Martin, born March 15, 1885, deceased 

March 4, 188 6. 
J-I-3-i Anne Jeannette Martin, born April 12, 1888, a graduate of 

Mansfield high school. 
J-I-3-j Thomas Byron Martin, born Feb. 28, 1890, a traveling sales- 

man, married Sept. 9, 1918, Helen Bennison, born July 

1890. 



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J-I-3-k Clarence Lowry Martin, born May 23, 1892, married June 

30, 1920, Anna Mary Jamison, born Sept. 16, 1889. He 
joined the world-war May 12, 1918, enlisting as a seiaman 
in the U. S. Merchant Marine and serving till honorably 
discharged Nov. 22, 1919. 



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J — I — 4. 

SARAH AGNES FINNEY 

was born October seventh, 185 6. Married March twenty-second, 1878, 
Wallace B. Wilson, a teacher, Lexington, Ohio. They lived at Lexington 
until her death June tenth, 1887. Her husband Then moved to Mans- 
field, and became salesman for a school book company. Both were mem- 
bers of the United Presbyterian Church, in which he was Sabbath 
school superintendent. He died, 1906, at Los Angeles, California, 
from injuries to his health incurred during the San Francisco earthquake. 
They had one daughter: Mary Edith Wilson, who died when seven 
years of age. 



J _ I — 5. 
SAMUEL STEWART FINNEY 

was born March twenty-third, 1858, and married January third, 1882, 
Ada E. Wilcox of Lexington, Ohio. They lived first at Mansfield, where 
he became County Commissioner of Richland County. After that they 
moved to a farm neiar Newark, Licking County, Ohio, where they now 
live. This family are members of the First Presbyterian Church of 
Newark, in which he holds the office of Deacon. They have four chil- 
dren. 

J-I-5-a Ada C. Finney, born June 16, 1885, married W. D. Juk, cloth- 
ing merchant, of Newark, O., in 1903. Mr. Juk was 
born Miarch 8, 1883, and was deceased May 27, 1913. 
There are two children: 

Debora Marie Juk, born February 10, 1904. 
Walter Desmond, born Aug. 16, 1905. 

J-I-5-b Antha T. Finney, iborn July 2 3, 1890, married Charles Wor- 

man in 1910, and they live in Newark, O. They have 
two ichildren: 

Etta May Worman, born IMay 11, 1912. 
Charles Robert, born May 29, 1918. 

J-I-5-C Preston B, Finney, born Feb. 19, 1896, is a farmer, Newark, 

Ohio. 

J-I-5-d Olive M. Finney, born Oct. 18, 1898, married Clarence R. Mc- 
Williams in 1915, and they live ion a farm at Newiark, 
Ohio. There are two children: 
Mildred L. McWilliams, born May 3, 1916. 
Wayne B., born June 27, 1919. 



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J — 1 — 6. 
JAMES PATTERSON FIXNEY 

was born November twenty-fifth 18 62. He attended Muskingum Col- 
lege, Ohio, and then became ,a farmer and stockman at Mansfield. He 
married January twenty-ninth, 1885, Mary Elizaheth Bell, born No- 
vember eleventh 18 61, deceased of typhoid fever October twenty- 
eighth, 1898. He died of sunstroke August thir^ 1892. They 
were United Presbyterians, and they lie buried at Mansfield. They 
had four children: 

J-l-6-b Leila Bell Finney, born April 17, 1887. July 1, 1908, she 

married Earl L. Mcllvaine, and their present home is De- 
troit, Mich. They have one child: Jack Edwin Mcllvaine, 
born Sept. 8, 1910. 

J-I-6-b Thomas Johnson Finney, born July 24, 1888. He married 

Laura Castro, March 10, 1907, ;at Windsor, Canada. He 
died of pneumonia March 21, 1917, at his home on a farm 
near Newark, Ohio, and was buried in Mansfield. There 
are four children; 

Lois Marie Finney born March 19, 1908. 
James Richard Finney, born July 1, 1910. 
Gerald Harrison Finney born March 23, 1912. 
Thomas Johnson Finney, born June 20, 1915. 

J-I-6-C Venna Elizabeth Finney, born April 6, 1890. On June 2 8, 

1911, she married August J. Wittibschlager, at Turin 
Falls, Idaho — returned to Ohio in 1915. At present they 
live in Gallon, O. They have two children: 
Ruth Lauretta Wittibschlager, born June 3, 1912. 
Leila Katherine Wittibschlager, born April 17, 1918. 

J-I-6-d Martha Lois Finney, born March 14, 1893. She married 

Ralph Carter Dickson July 1, 1914, at Mansfield. 
They have three children: 
Alice Bell Dickson, born Nov. 12, 1916. 
12, 1916. 

Ralph Carter Dickson, born Nov. 30, 1918. 
James Franklin Dickson, born Sept. 13, 1920. 



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J — II. 

WILLIAM STEWART LOWRY, 

the second surviving child of Johnstone and Sarah Stewart Lowry was 
born October eleventh, 1827. He was born, raised" and always lived on 
part of the original homestead farm, and his education was received in 
the public school at Poland Center. On June twenty-third, 18 53, he 
married Elizabeth Anne Smith, of Poland. In politics William S. Lowry 
was a strong Republican and held tbe office of Justice of the Peace of 
Poland Township from 1864 to 1867. He and his wife were members 
of the church at Poland Center and he was choirister. Sabbath School 
teacher and trustee of the congregation. In personal appearance he 
was tall, well formed and rather portly, wearing a full beard except the 
mustache. I-Ie died May twentieth, 1869, of pneumonia and was buried 
at Poland Center. 



ROBERT S>aTH. 

Robert Smith was one of the original pioneers of Poland Township. 
He came from Franklin County, Penna., in 1802, settled on 400 acres of 
land along the Southern line of Poland Township. In addition to 
farming he operated a saw-mill and a distillery. He was a staunch 
democrat, township trustee, and an elder in the Poland Presbyterian 
Church, he was a typical pioneer, sober, virtuous and industrious. 

He married Keziah Stewart, daughter of James Stewart. They had 
10 children, 6 boys and 4 girls. The names of the boys were James, 
Robert, John, Stewart, Joseph and Samuel. The names of the girls 
were Margaret, Martha, Elizabeth and Keziah. Robert Smith died in 
18 35 at the age of 70 years. His wife" Keziah died in 1847 at the age 
of 69 years. 

The oldest son, James Smith, was born January 28th, 1800, Wias 
married to Elizabeth Dobbins, August 2 6th, 182 6, and died March 21st, 
1870. 

They had five children, Keziah, Hillis, Elizabeth Ann, Mary Jane 
and Miartha. 



ELIZABETH ANN SMITH 

was born 'March 15, 1838, on the pioneer Smith farm. About 1841 
her father bought from Robert Lowry what is now known as the Cavett 
farm. About 185 3 he removed to Allen county, Ohio. Though his 
father and brothers were Democrats he was one of the first Republicans 
in the country. They were all members of the Presbyterian church. 

Elizabeth Ann Smith Lowry and her children continued to live at 
Poland Center till in 18 85 when she removed to East Palestine and made 
her .home with her son, Samuel J. There she died Feb. 23, 1912. She 
was a member of the United Presbyterian church and was diligent in 
the missionary society. She is recalled as a handsome woman, who 
reared her children wisely and managed her affairs intelligently, and her 
memory is hallowed. She and her husband had five children. 

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J — II — 1. 

ALBERT SMITH LOWRY 

Albert Smith Lowry was born at Poland Center, Ohio, December 
Eleventh, 1855, and died at Coffeyville, Kans,as, June Sixteenth, 1920, 
after an illness of eighteen months. He moved to Kansas in 1879 and 
was married on May Fourth, 1882, to Anna E. Tressler of Americus, 
Kansas. He Wias a member of the firm of Tressler and Lowry — general 
merchants — ^of Americus (1881-1901). He then moved to Coffeyville, 
Kansas, and was secretary and treasurer of The Maxwell-Lowry Mercan- 
tile Company (1901-1907), then engaged in the grocery business for 
himself for several years and for two years before his illness was a 
traveling salesman for the Kansas Wholesale Grocery Co. of Coffeyville. 
He was a member of the Masonic Order and the Ancient Order United 
Workmen. All of his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Cihurch. They h,ave four children: — 

J-II-l-a Frances May Lowry, born November 11, 1883, is a graduate 

of the Americas High School and was married to Clyde E. 
Butcher of Coffeyville, Kansas. They now live at Caney, 
Kansas. 

J-II-l-b Bessie Kell Lowry, born August second, 1888, graduated 

(19 07) from the Coffeyville High School, was married to 
George Milton Gamble of Coffeyville, Kansas, and is now 
living at Pittsburg, Kansas. 

J-II-l-c Harry Hillis Lowry, born March fifth, 1^94, graduated from 

the Coffeyville High School (1912) and from the Kan- 
sas City Dental College (1917). Sliortly after receiving 
his license to pracOce he entered the W;ar service as 1st 
Lieutenant in the Dental Corps and served eleven months 
in France attached to the 55th Infantry of the 7th Divis- 
ion. He was discharged from the service Junta 28th 
(1919) and is practicing dentistry in Coffeytille. He 
married Ruth M. Fulkerson of Coffeyville, Kansas. 

J-II-l-d William Tressler Lowry, born October twenty-eighth, 1900. 

Attended the Coffeyville High School for three years, and 
is now in the grocery business with Baker & Brant, at 
Coffeyville. 



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J -— II — 2. 

SA^TUEL JOHNSTON LOWRY 

was born January seventeenth, 1858, and went into business at East 
Palestine, Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1883. He was at first a dry 
goods merchant but is now a funeral director and furniture dealer. 

He married July thirteenth, 1887, Maud A. Chamberlain, daughter 
of John T. and Nora Chamberlain of East Palestine. He is a member of 
Palestine Lodge F. & A. M., Lisbon Chapter R. A. M. and Salem Oom- 
mandry. Knights Templars, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church 
as are all his family. 

They have two children: 

J-II-2-a Jay Taggart Lowry, born October twenty-third, 1888, a 

graduate of the East Palestine High School, attended Ohio 
Northern University, Ada, Ohio, for two years and is now 
in business with his father, and married Aug. 14, 1912 
Martha J. McMillin, E. Palestine, O. He is a member of 
East Palestine Lodge F. & A. M, East Palestine' Chapter 
R. A. M. and East Palestine Council R. & S. M. 

They have two children: 

Louise Elizabeth Lowry, born July fifth 1913. 
Martha Jane Lowry, born June eighteenth, 1915. 

J-II-2-b Florence Elizabeth Lowry, born July twelfth, 1894, a grad- 

uate of East Palestine High School and of the Beechwood 
College, Philadelphia, May 1918. She also spent two 
years in Wooster College, Ohio. 



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J — II __ 3. 

JAMES WILFRED LOWRY 

was born July fourth, 18 60, and married October twenty-eighth, 18 85 
Louisa A. Swentzell of Wichita, Kansas. He was a druggist in business 
at Sterling, Kansas, .and afterwards at Joplin, Missouri. He was killed, 
January fifteenth, 18 99, in a railroad accident at Carl Junction, Missouri. 
The present family residence is Riverside, Wichita, Kansas. He w,as 
and all his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
he was a member of the Masonic Order and of the Odd Fellows. 

There are four children: 

J-II-3-a William Stewart Lowry, born Aug. 188 7, drug sales- 

man, Wichita, Kansas, member of the Masonic Order and 
of the the United Commercial Travelers. Married Helen 
E. Hunt, August twenty-first, 1915. There is one child, 
Margaret Louise, born September 2 5, 1916. 

J-II-3-b Floyd Leamon Lowry, born August 2 6, 1889, Cathay, 

Cialifornia, is a ranchman in that section of the country, 
and a member of the Masonic Order. Married Grace 
Woods, December 8, 1915. 

J-II-3-C Sarah Helen Lowry, born February 5, 1892, Wichita, 

Kansas, a graduate of the Wichita High School, is a 
stenographer for Internal Revenue Department. 

J-II-3-d Mary Louise Lowry, born March 31, 1895, a graduate 

of Wichita High School and of Friends University, is an 
instructor of history in high school. 



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J — II — 4. 

ELIMER HILMS LOWRY, 

EDMiER HILLIS LOWRY was born at Poland Center, Ohio, April 
2nd 18 62. He moved to Kansas in 1885 and for ,a number of years 
traveled for a cracker company in Kansas City. At the present time he 
is engaged in the hotel business. All members lof his family belong to 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Masonic li'ra- 
ternity. Modern Woodmen of America and the United Commercial Travel- 
ers. On December 19, 1891, he was married to Charlotte Hinkson 
Neal. His address is Haddon Hall, Kansas City, Mo. 

They have two children: 

J-ll-4-a iFloyd Hinkson was born February 20th, 1897. Died at 
Fort Scott, Kansas 1905. 

J-ll-4-b. Mary Elizabeth was born September 12, 1900. She is a 

student at Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas. 



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J — II — 5. 
MARY ELIZABETH LOWRY 

was born October twenty-fifth, 1864, and was graduated from tlie Poland 
Union Seminary. She married November sixteenth, 1888, J,ames Kay 
Davis, son of James and Mary Davis off East Palestine, Ohio. They have 
resided at East Palestine, Ohio, ,and Rochester, Pennsylvania, her hus- 
band being then in the operating department of the Pennsylvania Com- 
pany. Their present residence is Pittsburg, Pa. Her husband is now 
president of the John K. Davis Company in the insurance business. 
During the Great War he was a member of Co. A, B. R. M. This fami- 
ly are members of the East Liberty Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Davis is 
a member also of the Travelers Club ;and the Ladies Auxilliary of As- 
calon Oommandry, Knights Templars, and of the Daughters of the Am- 
erican Revolution. Her husband is a member of fhe Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association; the Masonic Fraternity; fhe Pittsburg Athletic Club; 
the American Club; the Pittsburg Press Club; the Pittsburg Aquatic 
Club; the West Penn Canoe Club and the Stanton Heights Golf €lub. 
They have two daughteirs : 

J-II-5-a Bertha Elizabeth Davis was born October 16th, 18'89. She 

is a graduate of Allegheny High School, was cashier for 
the John K. Davis insurance company, a member of Qua- 
ker City Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, 
The Order of the Eastern Star, The Travelers Club 
and the Yo'ung Women's Christian Association. Was 
married May 27th 1918 to Elmer E. Hobbs of Miami, Flor- 
ida. He is a graduate of the Carnegie Lnstitute of Tech- 
nology, 1916, and served in the U. S. Navy during the 
great war as fuel oil testing engineer, located lat League 
Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Penna. He is a mem- 
ber of the Woodlawn Club, The American Society, Mechan- 
ical Engineers and other Orders. 

They have one child, John Clyde, born April 17, 1920 at 
Miami, Florida. 



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J-ll-5-b. Margaret Eula Davis was born May 30th, 189 6. She was 

gradu,ateid from the University of Pittsburg in 1918; was 
engaged ,as the soprano member of a compjany that gave 
iConcert programs throughout Pennsylvania; a member of 
the Kappa Kappa Gamma National Fraternity; of the Men- 
delsohn choir of Pittsiburg and of the Travelers' club. She 
taught Latin and Mathematics in the Pittsburg Schenly 
high school. Was married September 3rd, 1918, to Earl 
R. Loomis of Ravenna, Ohio, an ensign in the U. S. Navy 
during the Great War. He graduated from the Universi- 
ty of Michigan in the School of Architecture; a member of 
the Delta Tau Delta National iFraternity. After the 
Great Wiar he 'became a member of the insurance firm af 
John K. Davis Co., in Pittsburg, 



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J — III. 

MARTHA JANE LOWT^Y 

the third surviving child of Johnson and Sarah Lowry, was born Novem- 
ber twenty-nfth, 1830, and was married May fourth, 1854, to James Mc- 
Nab, ;a farmer, of Poland, Ohio, at which place she resided all her life. 
She joined the Poland Center Church in 1847 but afterwards united with 
the Poland Presbyterian Church, of which her husiband was an elder. 
She died of paralysis February seventeenth, 1889. James McNab was 
born December twenty-fourth, 18 30 at Pol,and and died September twen- 
ty-sixth, 1910. They are buried in the Poland Riverside Cemetery. 

They had five children of whom the second, Edward Johnson Mc- 
Nab, was born Sept. 16, 1857 and died Dec. 4, 1868. 



THE McNAB FAMH^Y 

is another of the early families with two branches of whom the Lowrys 
have frequently intermarried. The McNabs were of pure Scotch stock 
and originally came from Perthshire, Scotland. 

James McNab, the first, married (179 3) Mary Latimer, probably in 
Washington County, Pa. They located about 1801 on land just east of 
what is now Poland Village and a part of this land is still occupied by 
some of his descendants. His son, James McNab, the second, married 
first Sarah Gilkeson (1828); second, Katherine Anderson, (1845) ;third, 
Mary Johnson Lowry, of the Lowellville family. James McNab, the third, 
son of Sarah Gilkeson, married Martha Jane Lowry of the Poland Cen- 
ter family and Robert Lowry of Poland Center married Kate McNab, 
daughter of Katherine Anderson. 

James McNab, the first, had a daughter, Catherine, who married 
Patrick MacNab, of Lowellville, who although of the, same name was not 
related. They had a son, Robert MacNab, who settled at Pulaski, Pa. 
John W. MacNab, son of Robert MacNab of Pulaski, married Theoressa 
Lowry of the Lowellville family, and his brother James C. McNab mar- 
ried Sallie, widow of Smith Lowry, who was also of the Lowellville fam- 
ily. 

James McNab, the first, had thirteen children, ten of whom grew 
to maturity and by marriage were related also to the Ralstons, Logans, 
Wallaces, and other pioneer families. 



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J — III — 1. 

Ali^^AN JAMES McNAB 

was born February thirteenth, 1856. He attended the Poland Seminary 
and married Flora A. Cleland of Poland, January fourteenth, 188 6. 
They lived for two years in iSpear<3ville, Kansas, where he was engaged 
in building contracting. They went to Colorado Springs where his wife 
died September third. 1890. After his wife's death he returned to Po- 
land, where h& died March iourth. 189 7. Both of them were members 
of the Poland Presbyterian Church, and both are buried in the Riverside 
Cemetery at Poland. They had no children. 



J — in — 2. 

ELIZABETH McNAB 

was born April eleventh, 18 60. She attended the Poland Seminary and 
taught in the public schools of Poland and Youngstown for sixteen years, 
when she married, June nineteenth, 1895, James Rankin Stewart, a farm- 
er of Poland, Ohio, son of Alexander and Mary (Hammond) Stewart. 
She was a memher of the Poland Presbyterian Church land was always 
active in all church work and in the Sabbath school and Missionary so- 
cieties. She died May thirteenth, 1897, and is buried in the Riverside 
Cemetery. She left one son: 

J-III-2-a James Alex,andeT Stewart, born May 4, 1897, who is in 

the dairy business on iiis father's farm at Poland. He 
was married Oct. 11, 1920, to Mabel Mae Snyder, born 
March 13, 1897, daughter of John T. and Susan (Mellott) 
Snyder, Bedford Co., Pa. 



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R — m .— 3. 

ROBERT LOWRY McNAB 

was born December tenth, 18 63, and was educated at the Poland Semi- 
n,ary. He located at Ben Lomond, California, where he was eaigaged in 
the I'umber business. He married July twenty-ninth, 1890, Ida L. 
Young, of Colton, California. She Wias born in Lockport, N. Y., Dec. 18, 
18 65, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Young. Both were members of 
the Presbyterian Church. He died February sixth, 1908, and is buried 
at Santa Cruz, California. They h,ad five children. 

J-III-3-a Robert James McNab, born in Boulder Creek, Calif., Sept. 

1, 1891. He was graduated from Boulder Creek High 
School and took one year at the University of California. 
Jun'e 29, 1918, he married Eunyce Lucille Johnston who 
was born April 28, 1898, at Sault St. Marie, 'Michigan, and 
died Jan. 12, 1919. Robert is automobile dealer in Pas- 
adena, Calif. There is one child: 

Baby Jack McNab, born Jan. 10, 1919. "Some husky 
fellow." 

J-ni-3-b Ruth Elinor McNab, born May 18. 1893, at Boulder 

Creek. She is a domestic science specialist. 

J-III-3-C Martha Maud McNab born Dec. 27, 1894, ,at Boulder 

Creek. She is chief operator of telephone company at 
Pasadena. 

J-in-3-d Walter Johnston McNab, born March 4, 1898, at Ben 

Lomond, Calif. He married Delphine Coopman, San 
Francisco. He was real estate operator in Aerial Service 
during the war and was stationed ^at Riverside, Calif. 

J-ni-3-e James Edward McNab, born Dec. 13, 1900, at Ben Lo- 

mond. Married Elsie Reinmen, Pasadena, Cal., April 7, 
1921, who was born May 17, 1902, in Pittsburg, P,a. 
James is a baseball player with Vancouver of tTie North- 
western league. 



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J — . ni — 4. 

MARY ETTA McNAB 

was born April third, 1872. She was graduiated (1890) from the Po^ 
land Higih School and taught for three years. On June nineteenth, 
1895, she was married to John H. Cook of Poland, Ohio, who was born 
March 21, 1869, eldest son of William and Agnes (Reed) Cook. He is 
a lumber dealer and farmer. They are both members of the Poland 
Presbyterian Church, and reside on the McNab homestead, Poland, Ohio. 
They have eight children, all born the fourth generation on the same 
farm: 

J-III-4-a ElizaJbeth Jeanette Cook, born June 30, 189 6, graduated 

from Poland high school June 1914, Dec. 29, 1915, mar- 
ried to W. B, Metz (widower) who had two children: An- 
na Leona Metz, born Feb. 21, 1908 
Harold, born Aug. 9, 1910. 

Webster IB. and Elizabeth J. Metz have two children: 
Helen Esther Metz, born Oct. 24, 1916 
Mabel Elizabeth Metz, born Oct. 8, 1918. 

J-III-4-b Martha A. Cook, born February 24, 1899, graduated from 

Rayen School, Youngstown, June 1916, and (A, B.) from 
Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa. June 9, 1920. 

J-III-4-0 Florence Mae Cook, born Oct. 7, 19 Oa, graduated from 

Rayen School, June 10, 1920, now a student in Westmin- 
ster College. 

J-ni-4-d James Boyd and William Loyd Cook, twins, born Nov. 8, 

1903. Now seniors in Rayen School . 

J-ni-4-e Carl McNabb Cook, May 17, 1908. 

J-III-4-f Emma Louise and Mary Lois Cook, twins, born Sept. 30, 

1912. 



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J — IV. 
ROBERT LOWRY 

the youngest surviving child of Johnstone and Sarah Lowry, was born, 
November eighth, 1836 at Poland Center and lived at home until the 
opening of the Civil War, when he enlisted September twenty-second, 
1862, in Co. F, 41st Reg. O. V. I. and served thirty-three mion'ths under 
Generals Rosecr,ans and Sherman. He was engaged in the great battles 
of Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Resaqa, Dallas, 
Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Franklin and Nashville, besides a great 
many lesser battles and skirmishes. His hearing was injured by the 
concussion of a shell. 

After the war he married Kate McNab, of Poland, February fif- 
teenth, 18 66, and then lived and owned a farm on the south-west corner 
of Poland Center, u»til 1879, when they moved to Sterling, Kansas, 
where he purchased a farm. 

He was a Republican in politics, and was Justice of the Peace at 
Sterling. He united with the Poland Center Church in 1866 and was an 
elder in the United Presbyterian Church at Sterling. He was a leader 
of the choir in Poland Oe'nter Church and was also a member of the fa- 
mous Poland Glee Club. He died November twenty-seventh, 1911, at 
Red Wood, California. 



KATE McNAB 

wife of Robert Lowry, was the daughter of James McNab, second, and 
Katherine Anderson (McNab). She was born September twenty-third, 
1848. Se was a member of the Poland Center Church and of the Unit- 
ed Presbyterian Church at Sterling Kansas. Since the death of her 
husband (1911) she has made her home with her daughter, Lois Turkle, 
at Lawton, Oklahoma, where she is still living, the sole survivor of her 
generation in our family. 

Robert and Kate Lowry had seven children: 



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J — IV — 1. 
CHARLES ANDERSON LOWRY 

was born Fabruary twenty-fourth, 1867, and moved with his parents to 
Sterling, Kansas in 1879, where he remained until 1893, when, at the 
opening of the Cherokee strip, he located a farm at Helena, Oklahoma, 
where he now resides. He was married November third 1897, to Lil- 
lian G. Bonham, of Anthony, Kansas. He and his family are members 
of the First Baptist Church of Helena, and he is a memher of Helena 
Lodge Knights of Pythias, and is serving his eighth year as a member of 
the school boiard. 

They have two daughters and one son: 

J-IV-l-a Bessie Manilla Lowry, a senior in the Oonnell State School 

of Agriculture, Helena, Oklahoma. 

J-IV-l-b Magdalena Catherine Lowry, a junior In the Connell State 
School of Agriculture, Helena, Oklahoma. 

J-IV-l-c Kenneth Charles Lowry, Helena, OklaTioma. 



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J — lY^ — 2. 

FRANK JOHNSON LOWRY 

was born December twenty-first, 1868, and went with his parents to 
Sterling, Kansas, in 1879, where he lived until 1893, when at the 
opening of the Cherokee strip, he also located a farm at Helena, Okla- 
homa, on which he still lives. He is not married and his sister, Ruth 
Ijowry Burgess, makete her home with him. 



J — IV — 3. 
ftllNNIE EMMA LOWRY 

was born Nov. 16, 1870, and was a teacher in the public schools of Kan- 
sas. In 1899 she went to California and again engaged in school teach- 
ing. June 2 7, 1912, she was married at Stockton, Calif., to Harvey 
Archer Kincaid, attorney. Redwood City, where they reside. 



J — IV — 4. 
MAUD R. LOWRY 

was born April 25, 1874, at Poland Center and was married to Herman 
Mootz, Wichita, Kansas, Sept. 29, 1898. In 1890 they moved to Oak- 
land, Calif., where Mr. Mootz was engaged in the real estate business. 
More recently residence was transferred to Redwood, Calif. 



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J — IV — 5. 
RUTH liOWRY 

was born August eighth, 1879, and married September twelfth, 1896, 
Fred Burgess, son of Henry and Jennie Burgess, of Sterling, Kansas, 
and resided there until his death., October fifth, 19 09. She is a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her husband was manager of the 
packing department of the Sterling Salt Co. Since the death of her 
husband she has resided with her brother, Frank J. Lowry, Helena, Ok- 
lahoma. 

They had six children: 

J-IV-5-a Blanche Beatrice Burgess, Helena, Oklahoma. 

J-IV-5-b Leila May Burgess, student, Connell State School, Helena, 

Oklahoma. 

J-IV-5-C LeRoy Edward Burgess, Hutchinson, Kansas. 

J-IV-5-d Robert Adren Burgess, Helena, Oklahoma. 

J-IV-5-e Thelma Marie Burgess, Helena, Oklahoma. 

J-IV-5-f Frederick Earl Burgess, Helena, Oklahoma. 



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J — IV — 6. 
ANNA IRENA LOWRY 

was born at Sterling, Kansas, December sieiventh, 1889. She was grad- 
uated from the Santa Cruz, (Calif.) High School, and married October 
first, 1908, George P. Hall, at Ben Lomand, California. Her husband 
was in the agricultural implement business (1909-1915) at What Cheer, 
Iowa, land is now traveling salesman Ottumwa, Iowa. They are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian church, and he is a member of the Woodman 
Lodge and of the United Commercial Travelers. 

They have three children: 

J-IV-6-a Duane Hall. 

J-IV-6-b Jack Hall. 

J-IV-6-C Doris Hall. 



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J — IV — 7. 
LOIS LUCEIL LOWRY 

Lois Luceil Lowry, born June 12, 1891. She attended the Connell State 
School at Helena, Okla. June 21, 1911, she married Edgar Turkle, 
now traveling salesman for the National Biscuit Co. They lived at 
Helena until 1912 and since then at Lawton, Oklahoma. She is a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian church, and the husband is a Methodist. He is 
also a Mason and a member of the United Commercial Travelers' Asso- 
ciation. They have one child: 

John Herman Turkle. 



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THE LOWELLVILLE FAMILY 

WHAjIAM LOWRY 

the fifth child of ROBERT LOWRY and MARY JOHNSTONE, was born 
October eleventh, 1784, at Killylejagh, came to this country in 1804 with 
his parents and was married, March twenty-third, 1809, to Mary Hous- 
ton, daughter of William Houston, of Coitsville, 

After their marriage they lived on a part of the Poland Center 
farm until their homestead farm at Lowellville was bought March elev- 
enth, 1813. They moved to this place in the summer of 1813 and made 
it their permanent home. 

On June second, 1825, he received from his father-in-law a deed 
for a second farm in Kinsman Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, and on 
December eighth, 1825, he bought a third farm in Coitsville township 
and thus provided a farm for each of his three sons. 

So far as known he never held any public office, but a list of those 
from Poland Township who served in the war of 1812 includes the name 
of William Lowry. He was a member of the church at Kilmore, and 
became a member of thje Poland Center Church at its organization. 

William Lowry had a common school education, understood music 
and was a good singer. He was of medium height, with smooth face, 
dark hair and blue eyes. He is said to have been quiet and unassum- 
ing in mann,e|r and a very kind, good natured man. 

William Lowry died November third, 182 7, of quick consumption 
brought on hy exposure during a trip with a wagon-train to Lake Erie 
for neighborhood supplies, and is buried in the Deer Creek grareyard. 

MARY HOUSTON 

wife of WILLIAM LOWRY, is entitleld to more than a passing notice, 
being the first, but by no means the last, of the remarkable women of 
our family, who bereaved by death took up the responsibilities of widow- 
hood and made good. 

She was born at Pequay, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on May 
eighteenth, 1785, and when a young girl was brought by her parents to 
Coitsville where she married William Lowry, After eighteen years of 
married life she was left a widow with the care of nine minor children. 
A womian of strong will and business ability, she assumed the manage- 
ment of the estate which had been entrusted to her by the will of her 
husband, reared her large family of children and kept free from debt. 

Her familiar name was "Polly" among her relatives and friends. 
She iwas of medium height and slender build, with dark hair and blue 
eyes. She was a woman of more than ordinary learning and was al- 
ways in good health but became deaf in her old lage. All lier grandchil- 
dren will remember the ear trumpet into which was often shouted a de- 
mand for a Bible story or more often for a bear story^ — the Bible and 
the bear both appearing in her warning masterpiece about Elisha and the 
little heathen children who mocked the prophet of the Lord. 

On May Twentieth, 187 6, fifty years after the death of her husband, 
she died of the infirmities of age, at the home of her daughter Margaret 
Cowden and was l,aid to rest in the Deer Creieik graveyard. 
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THE HOUSTON FAMIY 

were of Scotch descent. Their original settlement in this country was 
at Pequay, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. William Houston, (17 57- 
1834), the father of Mary Lowry, w.as born in Scotland while his parents 
were on a visit to that country. He was a soldier in the revolutionary 
war and was a prisoner on the British prison ship off Long Island. He 
married Jane Wiatson (1760-1841) and about 1800 moved to Coitsville. 
He was an elder in the Deer Creek Church and one of the prominent men 
of the vicinity. In the burying ground across from the site of the old 
church, his dust lies awaiting the resurrection call, and the horizonital 
slab above bears the following rich memorial: 



In memory of WILLIAM HOUSTON, Esq. 

Who departed this life Dec. 28, 1834, 

Aged seventy seven years and seven months 

After devoting his early life to the service of his country 

And his later years to the service of his G-od. 



They had nine children of whom David Houston and his family 
have been most associated with our branch of the Lowry family as he 
settled at the same date on a farm adjoining the Lowry farm at Lowel- 
ville. He became an extensive land owner and was State Represen- 
tative for several years beginning in 1849, He was an elder first at 
Poland Center, and built the old brick church but about 1859 transfer- 
red to the Mahoning Church where he served as elder until 1863 when 
he was suspended for "pro slavery principles and adherence to the Dem- 
ocratic party," after which he went to the more tolerant Presbyterian 
Church.. He died in 1872 and is buried at Poland Center. He was 
married three times and by his third wife, Margaret Cowden, had eleven 
children many of whose descendants still live in the neighborhood 



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THE liOW^ELLVILLE LOWRYS 

The homestead farm of this branch of the family, situated on the 
north hill at Lowellville, overlo'oked the site of the present village, and 
afforded a view for miles up and down and across the valley, where in 
the days of our grandfather flowed a river of clear water. A century 
later a lifeless stream runs stained with the wastes of cities, and the 
valley is clouded by the smoke of great industries .and world wide 
traffic. 

On this farm were reared by their mother the ninei children of 
Willi,am Lowry: 



W-I. 


Jane Lowry 


W-II. 


Mary Johnstone Lowry 


W-III. 


Amy Houston Lowry 


W-IV. 


Martha Ann Lowry 


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Robert Lowry 


W-VI. 


Margaret Lowry 


W-VII. 


William Houston Lowry 


W-VIII. 


James Johnson Lowry 


W-IX 


Elizabeth Lowry 



This was a home keeping family. There were no wanderers 

among them. All were born .and a,ll married, lived and died within a 
few miles of the Lowellville farm, which is the only land that has de- 
scended in the family name from the original survey to the present time. 



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THE OLD "TENT" CHURCH 

The Mahoning Church, which many of our family joined after the 
union of 1858, is across the state line in Mahoning Township, Pa. The 
congregation grew out of house-to-house prayer-meetings held by the 
early settlers. This is the oldest congregation in this region and was 
organized as early as 1798 by the Rev. James Duncan, who regardless of 
orthodox doctrine, presbyterial authority or personal habits, became 
the great home missionary of this part of the country and the founder 
of m.any churches wherein the gospel is still proclaimed with sincerity. 

The original congregation was composed of both Associate and As- 
sociate Reformed members. They worshiped in a grove where the pulpit 
was covered by a tent of boughs for the shelter and dignity of the minis- 
ter and the singing clerks. Thus came the name "Old Tent Church." 

In 1808 the Associate members including Samuel McBride, who 
was clerk of the session, William Houston, Robert Walker, and James 
Shields, established the Deer Cmek Church and left the McFarlands, the 
McWilliams, the Dicksons, and other Associate 'Reformed members in 
possession at Mahoning. The Associate Reformed congregation called 
the Rev. Mr. Galloway to Miahoning and (1809) built a log church and 
about the same time the "Tent" school house, was built in the same 
grove. In 1850 was built the plain frame church wherein some of us 
received our first Sabfeath school lessons. There is remembered also a 
great spring which gushed out of the rock and the shady woods, more 
attractive to the boys oftentimes than the sermon and the Sabbath 
school. 



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THE DEER CREEK CHURCH 

to which nearly all of our Coitsville relatives belonged, had a rather tur- 
bulent history during its first half century. It appears in the records 
and writings of Uncle John Shields as a forum where every theological, 
moral and political issue was contended to the bitter end. 

After the inevitable split at Mahoning, a log church was built 
(1810) at Deer Creek, and the Rev. James Duncan divided his time 
among Deer Creek, Poland Center and Liberty until 1815 when his li- 
cense was revoked by the Associate Synod for erroneous doctrine, and 
he thereupon moved on west. Then came the Rev. Robert Douglas 
who died young (1823) in the year the first frame church was finished. 
The Rev. David Goodwillie ministered to Deer Creek (1825-1832) and 
resigned. 

The congregation next called Rev. James Ramsey (1834-1855) as 
pastor of Deer Creek only. During this pastorate! the controversies 
about occasional hearing, the lining out of the Psalms and the introduc- 
tion of new funes, became intense and finally culminated in a bitter 
struggle over the slavery question, even to nailing down fhe church win- 
dows land barricading its doors to prevent abolition meetings. The pro- 
slavery faction eventually were defeated and immediately seceded. 
Some of them founded the Beulah Church under Rev. Thomas Mehard, 
but others, including the maternal grandfather of the writer, never set 
their feet again within the door of any church. 

During all these years the Deer Creek spring bubbled peacefully up 
into its placid little pool — more placid than the troubled face of the min- 
ister or elder whO' stooped to drink from dt — and in 1858 Deer Creek, 
iBeulah and Mahoning, with Poland Center and Liberty, .all came together 
as a congregation of the United Presbyterian Church. 



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W — I. 

JANE LOWRY 

was born April fourteenth, 1810, and was married November sixteenth, 
1831, to Robert Stewart. They lived on a farm north of Coitsville, 
where she died Sepfceimber ninth, 1836. She was a member of the Asso- 
ciate Church and is buried at Deer Creek. 

Her husband, Robert Stewart, (1805-1886) was an elder of the Lib- 
erty Church for forty-five years. He married, second, Agnes White 
Stewart, (1838) and third, Mary Russell, (1853). 

By his second wife, Robert Stewart hjad four children, Mary Jane 
Stewart, John Struthers Stewart, Samuel Finley Stewart and Sarah Lu- 
cretia Stewart. 

Jane Lowry (Stewart) left one son: 



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WILLIAM JOHNSOIS" STEWART, 

was born August twenty-sixth, 1835, and m^arried October nineteenth, 
1858, Mary Katherine Archibald, daughter of John Archibald. He was 
a farmer and lived in Coitsville Township. He and his wife were both 
members of the Mahoning United Presbyterian Church. He died Au- 
gust sixth, 1914, leaving three children: 

W-I-l-a Ella Jane Stewart, is the wife of Alvan A. Houston, hitherto 

engaged in farming near Lowellville, Ohio. 
They have one child: 

Katherine S. Marie Houston, born July 7, 1895. She is 
a graduate of South High, Youngstown, also of the nurses 
training school of the Youngstown City Hospital. 

W-I-l-b Alice Caroline Stewart, who has her home with her mother 

in Struthers, Ohio. 



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W-I-l-c Anna Olive Stewart, a graduate of Grove City College. She 

is the wife of the Rev. H,arry S. McCutcheon, pastor of the 
Presbyterian church of LaPorte, iColorad'O. 
They have eight children: 

Harold Stewart MoCutcheon, born July 2 0, 189 6. He 
served in the late war, leaving home for Ft. Logan, Colo., 
Aug. 9, 1918, and going to Camp McArthur, Texas, Aug. 
12, and later to Camp 'Merritt, N. Y. Sept. 16 he left for 
iFrance and landed Oct. 3. Soon after he joined the Fifth 
Division, U. S. A., near Metz. He was placed in the ma- 
chine gun company. Eleventh Infantry, and was kept at 
the front till the armistice. Dater he belonged to the oc- 
c'upation force in Germany and remained till July 4, 1919, 
when he sailed for home and reiceived his discharge from 
service at Ft. Russell, Wyoming, July 19. He is employ- 
ed as first carbonator in the Great Western Sugar Factory, 
Ft. Collins, Colo. He was married June 28, 1918, to Olive 
Mae Baker, of La Porte, Colo. 

Marie Katherine McCutcheon, born March 8, 1898. 
Hazel Pauline McCutcheon, born Aug. 3, 1899, deceased 
Oct. 27, 1904. 

Carrie Jennie McCutcheon, born Sept. 17, 1901. 
Ella Louise McCutcheon, born Nov. 28, 1904, deceased Dec. 
4, 1904. 

William Alexander MoCutcheon, born May 27, 19 08. 
Estelle 'Margeruite McCutcheon, born June 1, 1911. 
Robert Alvan McCutcheon horn Aug. 29, 1916. 



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MARY JOHNSON LOWRY, 

was born December thirteenth, 1811, and on September fifteenth, 1853, 
became the third wife of James McNab, (1805-18 65) of Poland, where 
she lived the rest of her life in the old McNab homestead. Before her 
marriage she had been a school teacher and was a very bright and com- 
panionable woman. Her home will be remembered as a social meeting 
place for 'her nephews and their chums, who attended the Poland Union 
Seminary in those days. Her death was caused by paralysis on March 
twenty-sixth, 1887. She was admitted to the Poland Center Church, 
June thirtieth, 1838, but is buried in the Presbyterian Churchyard at 
Poland, in which congregation her husband was an elder. She had two 
daughters, of whom the younger. Flora (18 57-1 880") died unmarried. 
The elder daughter was: 



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W — II — 1. 
EMMA McNAB 

born November eighth, 1854, and married November eighth, 1877, Miartin 
A. Kimmel, who was Principal of the Poland Schools since 1880, and for 
many years a member of the Mahoning Countj^ Board of Teachers Exam- 
iners. She was originally a member of the Poland Center Church but 
upon her marriage united with the Poland Methodist Episcopal Church, of 
which her husband was a member. She died September twenty-third, 
1898, and is buried in the Poland Cemetery. The second wife of Martin 
A. Kimmel is Lily Haines, formerly a teacher in the Poland schools. 

Emma McNab Kimmel left two children: 

W-II-l-a Jessie Maude Kimmel, who attended Oberlin College and 

married Dr. Edgar A. Toby Sept. 17, 1902, and had her 
home with him in Youngstown, O. His death occurred 
March 25, 1920 in Los Angeles, CaL, and he was buried in 
Inglewood, Cal. There is 'one child; Marian Frances Kim- 
mel, born July 8, 1904. 

W-II-l-b Kennan Kendall Kimmel, assistant purchasing agent of the 

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, married Eva Bonnet 
and resides at Poland, Ohio. 



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W — III. 
AMY HOUSTON LOWRY 

was born February twenty-first, 1814, and was married to Robert Cow- 
den of Poland on December first, 1831 After tbeir marriage they resid- 
ed on a farm in Coitsville until their deaths. 

She united with the Poland Center Church in 1832 and her hus- 
band was also a member of that organization. About 18 60 they trans- 
ferred by letter to the Deer Creek Church. 

Robert Cowden was born in Washington County, Pa., and was 
brought to Poland Township when a child by his parents who were among, 
the earliest settlers of that township. He was kind and moral in his 
habits and one of the staunchest supporters of the abolition cause. He 
died February twenty-seventh, 1874, and Amy Cowden died March 
twelfth, 189 9. They are both buried at Deer Creek. Aunt Amy is re- 
membered as a bright, active, cheerful old lady. 

They had four daughters and two sons who survived to manhood 
and womanhood and several children who died in infancy: 



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W — III — 1. 
MARY ANN COAVDEN, 

was born January fourteenth, 1834. She taught in the schools of Coits- 
ville Township until her marriage. October twentieth, 1857, to Lowry 
Stewart of Vienna Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, where they lived 
upon a farm. Her husband also carried on the business of cabinet ma- 
ker and funeral director. She died November third, 1889, a few years 
after the death of her husband and they are buried at Liberty, of which 
church they were members. 

They left five children: 

W-III-l-a Ella Stewart, born in Vienna Feb. 2, 1859, married in 1880 

to Charles 'M. Malin, of Sharon, Pa., who died July 1, 1920. 
The family is now resident in Youngstown, O. 
They have nine children and four grandchildren; 
Beulah E. Malin, married to Albert J. Brunswick. 
Estella G. Malin, married to Carmon H. Chapin. 
Carl W. Malin 

Alfred B. Malin, who married Marguerite McGrea. 
Harry Malin, who married Alma Veach. 
Francis Malin, who married Lydia Young. 
Jay Malin. 

Katherine E. Malin, deceased Feb. 2 5, 192 0, aged nineteen. 
Maud Malin. 

N. B. The word is that four of the young men were In 
the world war. 

W-III-l-b David Cowden Stewart, married to Margaret Hayes is a 

farmer in Vienna. 

W-III-l-c Emma Stewart, deceased in 19 00 at the age of thirty-five. 

She was the wife of Frank Collar, farmer, Coalburg, O. 

W-ni-l-d Ellis Houston Stewart, born Nov, 18, 1867, Sept. 3, 1891 

he married Maud Hoagland, born March 19, 1872. They 
have three children: 

Gladys Ella Stewart, born July 28, 1892, deceased July 1, 
1913. 

Wade Van Buren Stewart, born July 25, 1894 
Russel Lowry Stewart, born May 7, 1911. 

W-III-l-e James Stewart, deceased in 1891 at the age of twenty-one. 



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W-III-l-f Lily Stewart, born Feb. 27, 1874, and married to William 
J. Wolf, Dec. 20, 1894. Their address is Hubbard, O. 

They have three children: 

Lucy Jane Wolf, born Nov. 24, 1895. She was married 
Sept. 30, 1918, to Merle W. Gifford. 

They have one child: 

Lillian Ruth Gifford, born Sept. 10, 1919. 

Ella Valeire Wolfe, married Oct. 17, 1917, to Harry Harris 

They have lone child: 

Willis, Harry Harris, born Aug. 5, 1918. 
Estella May Wolfe 



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W — III — 2. 
MARGARET JANE COWDEN 

w.as born December twenty-sixth, 1835, and October eighth, 1857, married 
Robert Strain of Poland. During their married life they lived at Shar- 
on, Pa., where her husband was a bookkeeper. She died December 
twenty-ninth, 1863. They were members of the United Presbyterian 
Church. Her husband married second (1865) Margaret Ormond, and, 
third, (1870) 'Mary Agnes Burgess. In 1885 he moved to Coldwater, 
Kansas, where he bought a farm and died in 1910, while on a visit to 
New Wilmington, Pa. 

There is one son: 

W-III-2-a Elmer James Strain, in the employ of a mercantile firm at 
Coldwater, Kansas. 



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W — III — 3. 
MARTHA liOWRY COWDEN 

was born June thirtieth, 1841, and married, William J. Sharp, December 
December twenty-seventh, 1865. Their residence for many years was at 
New Bedford, Pa. Her husband was originally in the saw mill business, 
and afterward was selling agent for agricultural machinery. His death 
occurred Dec. 21, 1918. They were members of the Deer Creek Church, 
and he was leader of the choir for several years. 

They have three daughters and one son: 

W-III-3-a Emma Jane Sharp, born Oct. 12, 1867. On Nov. 20, 1884, 

she was married to R. K. Rowland. They have their 
home in Youngstown, O., and Mr. Rowland is connected 
with Clegg Bros. Company. 

W-in-3-b Mary Eva Lena Sharp, born April 25, 1871, married May 7, 

1890, to Frank Book, who is a merchant in West Middle- 
sex, Pa. They have two children: 

Irma Rae Book, born April 18, 1892, and married to Wil- 
liam McClure Nov. 27, 1915. 

Raymond Book, born Jan. 27, 1895, married Helen Thomp- 
Oct. 7, 1915. They have one child: 
Donald Book, born March 17, 1918. 

W-III-3-C Edith Adella Sharp, born Dec. 1, 1874. She and her mo- 

ther make their home together in Youngstown. 

W-III-3-d Robert Clyde Sharp, born Dec. 28, 1878, married Sept. 24, 

1902, Josephine Parker, of Pittsburg, Pa. He is district 
claim adjuster, Pittsburgh. They have two children: 
Harry Barker Sharp, born Aug. 27, 19 03. 
Martha Louise, born Sept. 9, 1906. 



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w-ni-4. 

ELIZABETH SLOAN COWDEN 

was born November sixteenth, 1843, and married Simon P. McFall, Sep- 
tember twenty-seventh, 18 65, the Rev. Josiah Alexander officiating. 
They resided first on a farm in Coitsville and later in Youngstown,Ohio. 
She united with the Deer Creek Church, but after their removal to 
Youngstown transferred her membersip to the Tabernacle United Pres- 
byterian Church. She died July eleventh, 18 99, and" is buried in Oak 
Hill Cemetery, Youngstown, Ohio. 

Simon P. McFall, was born January sixteenth, 1840; served during 
the civil war in Co. A. 105th Reg. O. V. I.; was a member of the Tod 
Post Gr. A. R. and of the First Christian Church, Youngstown, Ohio. He 
died August fourth, 1913. They had nine children. 

■W-in-4-a James R. McFall, born Oct. 2 3, 18 66, deceased Oct. 11, 

1867. 

W-III-4-b Frank Judson MoFall horn Aug. 11, 18 68, deceased Jan. 

11, 1869. 

W-III-4-C Arnold Benton McFall, born Nov. 13, 18 69, he married 

Mazie Pierce, June 3, 1893. He is a civil engineer and 
lives at Florence, Colorado. 
There are five children: 
Irene, Jack, Francis, James and Elizabeth. 

W-ni-4-d Ellen Gertrude McFall, born Feb. 14, 1873. She married 

William McGeehan in 1893, and to these were born: 
Geneva May McGeehan, born Oct. 14, 1895, married to 
Fred Markstrom Oct. 14, 1915. They have two children: 
Paul Frederick Markstrom, born Dec. 1, 1917. 
Bonnelyn May Markstrom, born Jan. 19, 1921. 
Hazel Gertrude McGeehan, born Dec. 1, 189 6, married to 
Russel H. Sankey, Dec. 20, 1915. They have two chil- 
dren : 

Douglas Ward Sankey, born Sept. 23, 1917. 
David Bernard Sankey, born March 19, 1920. 
Ellen Gertrude McFall later married James Stran, and 
they have one child; James Bernard Stran, born Feb. 24, 
1905. 



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W-III-4-e Eva Luella McFall, born Dec. 10, 1874 married Hugh O. 

Harroff, June 22, 19 04. 

They have two children: 

Helen Luella Harroff, born June 5, 1905. 
Homer Hugh Harroff, born March 27, 1910. 

W-III-4-f Harry Lee McFall, born March 2, 187 6, married M,ame 

Maud Bridges. He is a civil engineer and they live in 
Sacramento, Calif. They have two children, Mildred and 
Hazel McFall, 

W-III-4-g Alfred O. McFall, born March 2 8, 1877, married Margaret 

Free. He is a civil engineer, and they live in Salt Lake 
City, Utah. They have one child, Dennis Norton McFall. 

W-III-4-h Flora M. McFall, born Oct. 18, 1879, married Clifford A. 

Boehler August 25, 1916. Mr. Boehler served twenty 
months in the world war with the 332 Reg., stationed in 
Italy. 

W-ni-4-i \Amy Elizabeth McFall, born Nov. 21, 1889, married Clar- 
ence G. Swager Oct. 30, 1907. He is with the Republic 
Rubber Company of Youngstown. They have one child, 
Russell P. Swager. 



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w — in — 5. 

AVTLLIAMS REYNOLDS COWDEN 

born February twenty-first, 1848, died September eighteenth, 1906, and 



W — III — 6. 
ROBERT JAIMES COWDEN 

born November twenty-seventh, 1850, were not married. They lived 
with their mother on the Coitsville farm until her death, and then con- 
tinued to live there together until the death of William, and James still 
lives on the farm. 



W — IV. 
IMARTHA ANN LOWRY 

was born May seventeenth, 1816; married September tenth, 1847, Joshua 
Anderson McBride, being his second wife, and she lived for sixty-three 
years on the old 'McBride farm in Mahoning Township, Lawrence County, 
Pa. 

She united with the Poland Center Church in 1835 and her husband 
with the Deer Creek Church in 1838. They both united by letter with 
the Mahoning church in 1863, of which church her husband was chosen an 
elder for life in 1865, and both were teachers in the Sabbath School. 

Anderson McBride was a blacksmith by trade, and worked as such 
at Lowellville until he moved to the McBride farm. He died June twen- 
ty-first, 1884, aged seventy-four years. His father was Samuel Mc- 
Bride, one of the original pioneers who settled Lawrence County in 179 3, 
and who was a member oi the first session of Deer Creek Church. 

"Aunt iMattie" is well remembered as an entertaining woman, fond 
of visiting and society. She died June twenty-third, 1910, of the infirm- 
ities of age and is buried in the Mahoning churchyard beside the kin and 
neighbors among whom she was an influence for good for three genera- 
tions. 

'Anderson McBride by his first wife, Martha Dickson, had two sons, 
Davidson C. McBride, who married Mary Jane Lowry, and Dickson Mc- 
bride of Lowellville. 

Anderson and Martha Ann McBride had two sons: 



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W— IV— 1. 
SAMUEL MORROW McBRmE 

was born September twenty-fourth, 1851. He attended (1870-1871) 
the Poland Union Seminary, and lived (1879-1881) in Colorado, and then 
returned to Youngstown. He married November eighth, 1883, Vina J. 
McFarland, daughter of Anderson McFarland, of Coitsville, who died 
March fourth, 188 6. After her death he again went west ami was en- 
gaged (188 6-1889) in railroad construction and then moved to Lapeer, 
Michigan, where he has been a member of the firm, Wright and McBride, 
Cold Storage; superintendent of the King Lumber Company, and is now 
engaged in contracting and building. 

He united with the Mahoning Church and transferred by letter to 
the First United Presbyterian Church of Youngstown, and from there to 
the First Presbyterian Church of Lapeer, in which congregation he has 
been an elder since 1910. He was a member for several terms of the 
Lapeer Board of Education and of the City Council. 

He married, second, October fourth, 1892, Sarah Emmeline Hallock, 
daughter of Alfred Hallock, of Lapeer. 

There are six children: 

W-IV-l-a Donald Hallock McBride, born Nov. 28, 1894, graduated 

from Lapeer high school in 1912, spent one year at M. A. 
C, two years with Chalmers Motor Car Company, Detroit, 
enlisted with world war Nov. 30, 1917, and was in service 
nineteen months, in France eighteen; returned to Chalmers 
Co., and is now in the employ of the Southern Motor Co., 
Houston, Texas. Member of the Pres'byterian church. 

W-V-l-b Elizabeth Jean McBride, born Dec. 8, 189 6, deceased Feb. 

4, 1897. 



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W-V-l-c Mildred Lowry McBride, born April 22, 1899, graduated 

from Lapeer high school, 1918, spent two years at Alma 
College. She is a member of the First Presbyterian 
church of Lapeer and is at present kindergarten teacher 
at Michigan Home and Training School. 

W-V-l-d Infant son, born Feb. 1, 1901, deceased Feb. 19, 1901. 

W-V-l-e Hugh Alan McBride, born April 1, 1902, deceased July 22, 

1914. 

W-V-l-f Robert Keith McBride, born Dec. 4, 1903, is member of 

the First Presbyterian church and at present is in Lapeer 
high school. 



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W — IV — 1. 
JAMES HOUSTON McBRIDE 

was born February thirteenth, 18 55, and attended Westminster College, 
New Wilmington, Pa. He has always lived upon the McBride homestead 
farm in Mahoning Township, near Lowellville, Ohio, and was rural mail 
carrier (1900-1910). He and his family are members of the Mahoning 
Church. 

He has been twice married. First on January twenty-ninth, 1880 
to Helen B. Anderson, daughter of Thomas Anderson of New Bedford, 
who was killed November fifth, 1889, in a runaway accident at Struthers, 
Ohio, and second on April sixth. 1893, to Marietta Jackson, daughter of 
Joseph M. Jackson, of Coitsvile. 

He has two children: 

W-IV-2-a Roy L. McBride, (son of Helen Anderson McBride,) is a 

farmer on the home farm and married Alice M. Baird, June 
They have one child: 
Donald Baird, born July 30, 1908. 

W-IV-2-b Helen Martha McBride, (daughter of Marietta Jackson 

McBride,) born April 19, 1896, a graduate of the Lowell- 
ville High School. Married Aug. 7, 1918 to Arrel C. Hen- 
ley, Deceased Mar. 6, 1919. 



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W — V. 
ROBERT LOWRY 

was born August twelfth, 1818, and married, September twenty-second, 
1842, Margaret Stewart of Coitsville. Upon his marriage he received 
from his father's estate the Coitsville farm on which he resided until his 
death. 

In politics he was a Republican and was one of the most prominent 
politicians of Mahoning County. He held the office of Justice of the 
Peace from 1855 to 1871, and was Commissioner of Mahoning County 
from 1866 to 1872, and also held several township offices at various 
times. He was capable and popular and his memory was cherished by 
the men who were associated with him in those days. 

He joined the Poland Center Church May eleventh, 18 39; was elect- 
ed an elder November second, 18 57, and ordained and installed May 
twenty-third, 1858. He went by certificate to Deer Creek Church, Octo- 
ber twenty-second, 1859, and was elected and installed as elder of that 
congregation in 18 60 and served as such until his death. In 1885 he 
was commissioner from Mercer Presbytery to the General Assembly of 
the Church which met at Topeka, Kansas. 

He married, second, May eighteenth, 1876, Anna Madge, daughter 
of Roibert Madge of Mercer County, Pa., who survived him. 

Robert Lowry was of medium height and of stout build with brown 
hair and blue eyes; jolly and good humored. He died February eight, 
1891, of dropsy and is buried at Deer Creek. 



MARGARET STEWART 

wife of ROBERT LOWRY, was the youngest daughter of William Stew- 
art of Coitsville. She was born January fifteenth, 1817, and died July 
first, 1873. She also was a member of the Deer Creek Church and is 
buried there. 

"Aunt Peggy" is recalled as being of more than ordinary height and 
slender; quiet and retiring in her ways — an admirable woman. 

Robert Lowry and Margaret Stewart had four children: 



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W— V— 1. 
MARY JANE LOWRY 

was born February eighth, 1844, and married February eighth, 1865, Da- 
vidson C. McBride, who was born July thirtieth, 1840. 

He was a member (1861-1864) of Co. D. 134th Reg. Pa. Vol. Inf. 
and re-enlisted (18 64) in Co. E. 19 3rd Reg. Pa. Vol. Inf. He also serv- 
ed as an elder in the Mahoning Church and was Justice of the Peace of 
Mahoning Township during their residence there. 

They lived first upon her husband's part of the old McBride farm 
but sold it and bought another farm at New Bedford, Pa., and their 
church membership was then transferred to the Deer Creek Church. 

Mary Jane McBride, died at New Bedford, November twenty-eighth, 
1910, and her husband died September twenty-seventh, 1911. Both are 
buried in the Mahoning Church graveyard. 

They had two sons: 

W-V-I-a Robert Burton Anderson McBride, born Dec. 21st, 1867. 

Graduated by Grove City College with degree of A. B. in 
class of 1891. Graduated by Allegheny (now Pitts- 

burgh) Theological Seminary in class of 1894. Licensed 
to preach by Beaver Valley Presbytery (U. P.) in April 
1893. 

He was united in marriage with Jennie Catherine Rankin, daughter 
of David and Frances (Douglas) Rankin, of Boston, Allegheny Co., 
Pa. June 6, 1894, 

He was ordained by Beaver ValleyPresbytery (U.P.) and was in- 
stalled pastor of Oak Grove and Neshannook churches May 1, 1894. He 
also served the following churches in their order: Oskaloosa, Iowa, Feb. 
1, 1897; Tarkio, Mo., April 1, 1900; Central, Omaha, Oct. 1, 1S05; First 
Presbyterian Leavenworth, Kansas, April 1, 1910; First Presbyterian 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Feb. 1, 1915. 

He entered the War Work Service of the Y. M. C. A. Dec. 31, 1917, 
and made the following lecord: Served as Building Religious Work Di- 
rector of Y. M. C. A. Building No. 28 in Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas 
during January, 1918. Transferred to Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Texas, 
and made Religious Work Director, served in this capacity until April 
18th, 1918. Transferred to Camp Cody, at Deming, N. M., and made 
Camp General Secretary, served in this capacity until August 14th, 1918. 
Transferred to Camp Eustis, Newport News, Va., and made Camp 
Religious Work Director, at his own request, serving until Oct. 1st, 1918 
when he resigned to accept a call to the First Presbyterian Church of Em- 
poria, Kansas. Served here until Oct. 1st, 1920, when he resigned on ac- 
count of ill health, having suffered a stroke of paralysis. Removed to 
La JoUa, Calif. Dec. 1920. 

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Robert Burton Anderson McBride received the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Divinity from his Alma Mater, Grove City College in 1906. 
Moderator of the Synod of Nebraska, (U. P.) 1907. Member of the Board 
of Church Erection of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A. 1912-1918. 
Served on the Directorate of Tarkio College, Bellevue College and Omaha 
Theological Seminary and Coe College. 

There are four children: 

Davidson Rankin McBride, born Dec. 17th, 189 6 at New- 
Castle Pa. Commissioned 2nd Lieut. Aviation, at Elling- 
ton Field, Texas, Dec. 1918. Graduated by the College of 
Emporia, Emporia, Ks. with the degree of A. B. with the 
class of 1919. Sup't. of schools at Wamego, Ks., 1919, 
resigned to accept a Rhodes Scholarship in Oxford Univer- 
sity, Oxford, Eng. Dec. 1919. 

Mary Frances McBride, born Feb. 20th, 1900, in Oskaloosa, 
la. 

Helen McBride, born June 2nd, 1904, in Tarkio, Mo. 
Roberta Catherine McBride, born Oct. 3rd. 1912, in Leav- 
enworth, Ks. 

W-V-I-b Charles Clyde McBride, born Dec. 16, 1872, in Lawrence Co., 

Mahoning Tp., Pa. He was graduated in business course 
from Grove City College, March 21, 1894. He married, 
Nov. 10, 1896, Elizabeth Book, who was born Mar. 29, 
1872, daughter of Ferdinand and Sarah (Showers) Book, 
Lawrence Co., and who died Jan. 6, 1904. He married, 
April 8, 1914, Elsie Steelsmith, who was born Feb. 25, 
1883, in Mercer Co., daughter of Martin and Sophia 
(Onstott) Steelsmith. To these were born a son and 
daughter who died at birth. They live on a farm at New 
Bedford, Pa. 

Of Charles Clyde and Elizabeth Book McBride there are 
two sons: 

Burton Book McBride, born June 4, 1898. 
Walter Davidson McBride, born Dec. 31, 19 03. 



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W— V — 2. 
WILLIAM SAjMITEL LOWRY 

was born July fifteenth, 1847, and married, December tenth, 1868, Mary- 
Elizabeth Mars, born September twelfth, 1848, a daughter of John Mars, 
of New Bedford. 

They lived first (18 69-1878) on their farm in Coitsville, and then 
(1878-1894) on another farm which they bought at New Bedford, and 

since 1894 have owned a general store in New Bedford, Pa. 

He and his wife are members of the Deer Creek Church in which 
he was superintendent (1875-1877) of the Sabbath School and since 1891 
has been life elder of the congregation. 

They have two children: 

W-V-2-a Edward Robert Lowry, attended Grove City College and 

graduated at the Meadville, (Pa.) Business College. He 
married Clara Elizabeth McClusky of New Bedford, and is 
credit manager of Tlie John H. Fitch Company, wholesale 
grocers, Youngstown, Ohio. 

W-V-2-b Eleanor Margaret Lowry, married first, Alex Edmond Eckles, 

principal of the New Bedford schools, and second, (Merle 
Murdock, of New Bedford, who is in the general store bus- 
business with his father-in-law. She died Sept. 2, 1917, 
in Youngstown City Hospital, following ,an operation, and 
was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, New Bedford, Pa. 

One child: Russell Lowry Eckles, born June 3, 1897, at Wampum, 
Pa., graduated from New Castle high school and employed by the Carne- 
gie Steel Company, drafting department. On May 31,1918, he enlisted 
at Youngstown in the Engineers and went the same day to Columbus, O. 
From there he vras sent to Camp Dix, N. J. July 7, 1918, he landed in 
Liverpool, England, and in France July 10. He was assigned to Co. A. 
54th Eng. at Perigenex. Later he was made corporal and transferred 
to Headquarters Co., 17th Grand Division. He left France June 4, 1919, 
and received honorable discharge from the service on July 1, 1919, at 
Camp Sherman, Ohio. At present he lives with his grandparents and 
has employment with the Carnegie Steel Co., New Castle. 



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W— V — 3. 
THEORESSA JOHNSON T^OWRY 

was born November tenth, 1851. She married, first, January seventh, 
1874, John William MacNab, born July fifth, 1852, son of Robert MacNab 
of Pulaski, Pa. 

They lived first (1874-1884) at Pulaski, where her husband and his 
brothers had a blacksmith shop, and next (1884-1887) at Stonefort, Illi- 
nois, while cutting out ,a tract of timber land, and then settled at New 
Castle, Pa., where her husband became the senior member of MacNab and 
Horton in the hardware business. John MacNab died February sixth, 
1891.. 

She joined (1862) the Deer Creek Church,but since 1889 has been 
a member of the First Presbyterian Church of New Castle, to which her 
husband also belonged. 

She married, second, August nineteenth, 19 07, George C. Thompson, 
principal of Martin Gantz School, New Castle, who died, March tenth, 
1916. Her residence is New Castle, Pa., and she has one son: 

W-V-3-a Lake Stewart MacNab, a graduate 'of New Castle High 

School; attended Washington and Jefferson College, Pa., 
married Dorothy Donnan, of Pittsburgh, Oct. 28, 1913, and 
is a member of the firm of Cripps and MacNab, hardware 
merchants. New Castle, Pa. 

They have two children: 

Elizabeth Donnan MacNab, born March 29, 1916. 
Ruth MacNab, born March 2 0, 1920. 



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W — V — 4. 
SARAH ELIZABETH COWDEN LOWRY 

was born May 11,1858, and was married March 10, 1881, to Samuel 
Walker Allen, who was born Feb. 28, 1855. She united in 1873 with 
the Deer Creek church rfnd at her marriage became a member of the Ma- 
honing church. They live on the homestead farm of her father in Ooits- 
ville, bought at his death. Her husband attended Poland Union Semi- 
nary and then Westminster College, Pa., and Oberlin College, Ohio. For 
the interval of 1902-1907 he was secretary of the MacNab-Rhoades Fur- 
niture Co., New Castle, Pa. For a number of years he was engaged in 
school work, serving 1895-1901 as superinten,dant of the Coitsville Town- 
ship schools, and he was trustee of the san^e township and for eight 
years its clerk. In Mahoning church he has served as teacher or super- 
intendant in the Sabbath school since 1873, deacon for twenty years and 
elder since 1911. 

They have three sons: 

W-V-4-a George Robert Allen, a graduate of Coitsville high school, 

conducts a dairy farm on the home place with his father. 
He serves the Lowry clan as secretary, and his address is 
Lowellville, Ohio. He was born June 18, 1884, in a home 
built on the farm of his grandfather, was married June 19, 
1912, to Mary Louise Porter, who was born June 8, 1886, 
at Donithan, Nebraska, and taught school in Ohio. They 
are members of the Mahoning U. P. church. They have 
one child: 

Edwin Walker Allen, born July 12, 1917. 



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W-V-4-b Lee Emel Allen, a graduate of Eayen school, Youngstown, 

and of Ohio State University, course in mechanical engi- 
neering and class of 1911, is assistant engineer for The 
Pennsylvania Engineering Co., New Castle, Pa. He was 
married to Esther Goldeana Kerr, born June 1, 1894, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kerr, Pulaski township, 
Lawrence county. Pa., and they have one child: 
Helen Roberta Allen, born Nov. 15, 1920. 

W-V-4-C Stewart Gibson Allen, 1888-1905, deceased. 



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W — VI. 
MARGARET LOWRY 

was born January sixth, 1821, and married October twenty-sixth 1851, 
Ebenezer Scroggs Cowden, she being his second wife, and they resided 
on his farm at Lowellville. She joined the Poland Center church on 
May eleventh, 1839, and he was admitted to the same church September 
eighteenth, 1841. On September twenty-third, 1863, they took their 
certificates to he Mahoning church. 

Eben. S. Cowden was a brother of the Robert Cowden who married 
Amy Lowry. They were sons of Reynolds Cowden, who came to Poland 
Township from Washington ^county. Pa., with his brothers among the 
earliest settlers in the Western Reserve. 

Margaret Cowden was of medium height with brown hair and blue 
eyes — quiet and dignified. Her husband was tall and slender. Both 
were neat and methodical and everything about the house and farm was 
kept in the best of order. 

Eben. S. Cowden died May twenty-sixth, 1895, aged 80 years. Mar- 
garet Cowden died April twenty-eighth, 1904. They are buried in the 
Mahoning churchyard. 

Ebenezer S. Cowden and Esther Dickson, his first wife, had two sons, 
Reynolds Cowden, formerly bookkeeper for The Cherry Valley Iron Com- 
pany, Leetonia, Ohio, and George Cowden, who died in the Union Army 
before Petersburg, Va. 

Ebenezer S. Cowden and Margaret Lowry Cowden had two children: 



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W — VI — 1. 
ESTHER JANE COWDEN 

was born March fifth, 1854, and married, February nineteenth, 1874, 
Henry Falls Anderson, son of Thomas Anderson, of New Bedford, Pa. 
Her husband was a building contractor in Youngstown, Ohio; a member 
for a term of the Youngstown City Board of Education; an elder in the 
Tabernacle United Presbyterian Church, of which she was also a member 
by letter from Mahoning, and was a commissioner from Cleveland Pres- 
bytery to the General Assembly of 1893 which met at Monmouth, 
Illinois. He died July third, 1905, after which she lived with her son 
in Lakewood, Ohio, where she died December twelfth, 1912. They are 
both buried in the Lowellville Cemetery, and left one son: 

W-VI-l-a Luard C. Anderson, son of Henry F. Anderson and Esther 

Jane Anderson, was born Nov. 17th, 1879, Youngstown, O. 
Public and high school education received ditto. Entered 
service L. S. & M. S. Ry. ditto May 9th, 18 9 9. Migrated 
to Cleveland Sept. 9th, 1901. Again migrated to New 
York City March 1, 1920. Appointed Superintendent 
Passenger Transportation, N. Y. C. R. R. at Cleveland, O., 
Feb. 7th, 1918. Appointed Assistant General Superin- 
tendent Passenger Transportation N. Y. C. R. R. at New 
York March 1, 192 0. Married to Margaret A. Richards 
of Youngstown, O., May 12, 1909, daughter of John T. and 
Mary A. Richards. They have one child: 
Kenneth Luard Anderson born at Lakewood, Ohio, March 
6th, 1910. 



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W — VI — 2. 
WILLIAM FRANCIS COWDEN 

was born August tenth, 1852, and married February first, 1877, Agnes 
Myrtle Mars, daughter of John Mars, of New Bedford, Pa. He is a farm- 
er and owns and lives upon the home farm of his father. Both he and 
his wife are members of the Deer Creek Church, and he has been a life 
elder of that congregation since 1910. 

They have four children: 

W-VI-2-a Charles Dickson Cowden, married Delia Book, and works 

for the Standard Oil Company, Youngstown, Ohio. 

W-VI-2-b Mary Margaret Cowden, attended the State Normal School 

at Slippery Rock, Pa., and is the wife of Harvey G. Brown- 
lee, engineer, Pennsylvania Company, Ashtabula, Ohio. 

They have one child: 

Jean Elizabeth Brownlee, born Nov. 28, 1916. 

W-VI-2-C Martha Esther Cowden, a graduate of Rayen High School, 

Youngstown, Ohio, is a teacher in the Lowellville Schools. 

W-VI-2-d John Scroggs Cowden, born May 11, 1890, a graduate of the 

Lowellville High School, Aug. 12, 1913 married Vera Gib- 
son, daughter of J. Freeman and lanthe Moore Gibson, and 
is a funeral director. New Bedford, Pa. 
One child: 

Dorothy Eleanor Cowden, born Aug. 21, 1913. 



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W — VII 
WILLIAM HOUSTON LOWRY 

was born March twenty-ninth, 1823, at Lowellville, Ohio, His early occu- 
pation was school teaching, but later he learned the trade of wagon mak- 
ing at Lowellville with William Dickson and pursued this employment in 
connection with his farm at Coitsville, until his death June twenty-fourth, 
1853. He was never very rugged, and after a case of fever he developed 
dropsy of the heart, which resulted in his death. 

In the division of his father's estate he received the farm at Kins- 
man, Ohio, which in 1848 was traded for the farm at Coitsville Center. 
On May eighteenth, 1845, he was received into the Associate Church at 
Poland Center. 

He afterward removed his membership to Deer Creek Church and at 
his death was serving as an elder. Testimony is clear to his Christian 
character and service and to his singularly pure and consecrated life. 
His body lies in the burying ground of the Church of old Deer Creek. 



MARGARET JANE DAVIDSON 

wife of William Houston Lowry, was born October twenty-fifth, 1826. 
She was the daughter of James and Mary (Shields) Davidson, of Coits- 
ville. She married William Houston Lowry, September twenty-first, 
1848, and upon the death of her husband returned to her father's house 
for about five years, after which she resumed her household on the farm 
at Coitsville Center. With the burden of life heavy upon her young 
shoulders, she kept her faith strong and her courage bright, and her chil- 
dren rose up to do her honor. 

She also was a member of the Deer Creek Church and is buried by 
her husband. Her death was on August thirteenth, 1889. It was sud- 
den, but it found her ready for the call. 

They had three sons: 



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W-VII-1 
WILLIAIM CA]>IILLUS LOWRY 

was born October sixth, 18 49, and September thirtieth, 1880, married An- 
nie E. Porter, of Sharon, Pa. He received a good common school education 
and for a time attended Poland Union Seminary , He learned the ma- 
chinest trade with McGilvray and Co., (1869-1872) at Sharon, Pa., and 
has been employed at the Phoenix Iron Works (1872-1873) Meadville, 
Pa.; Douglas & Freeman Machine Works (1874-1875) Warren, Ohio; 
Pennsylvania Railroad Shops, (1876-1877), Oil City, Pa; Warren Machine 
Works, (1877-1883), Warren Ohio; The William Tod Works, (1883- 
1887) Youngstown, Ohio; The Homestead (Pa.) Works of the Carnegie 
Steel Co., (1887-1893) as inspector of machinery; master mechanic 
(1893-1895) of the Ohio Steel Co., Youngstown, Ohio, during the con- 
struction of its plant, and since 189 5 inspector of Machinery at the 
Braddock, (Pa.) Works of the Carnegie Steel Company, residing at Wil- 
kinsburg. Pa. 

He united (187 6) with the Oil City United Presbyterian Church and 
at Youngstown was an elder of the Tabernacle United Presbyterian 
Church. When the Homestead United Presbyterian Church was organized 
(1888) he was elected an elder and also served as superintendent of its 
Sabbath School. He and his family are now members of the Second 
United Presbyterian Church, Wilkinsburg, Pa., of which he was elected 
Trustee in 1896 and Elder in 1900, and has been the teacher of a large 
Bible class since and is active in every good work. 

They have one daughter: 

W-VII-1-a Margaret Porter Lowry, a graduate of the Wilkinsburg 

High School, attended the Pennsylvania College for Wo- 
men for three years and is assistant librarian, Carnegie 
Library, Wilkinsburg, Pa. 



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w — vm — 2. 

JAMES DAVIDSON LOWRY 

was born February eleventh, 1851, and attended the Poland Union Semi- 
nary. He has passed his life upon his father's home farm at Coitsville 
Center, sharing house with his mother until her death. 

He was engaged for many years in raising and training thorough- 
bred horses, including race horses, and succeeded in putting "Jessie L" 
into the two-ten class. 

In 1875 he became a member of Deer Creek church. He served as 
superintendent of the Sabbath school and for three terms as trustee. 
More recently he removed his membership to the United Presbyterian 
church of Struthers, the successor of the church of his fathers at Poland 
Center. He has served as clerk of Coitsville township an'd all his life 
has been a staunch Republican. April 27, 1898, he married Mrs. Alice 
Ray Smith, of Youngstown, who is a member with him of the Struthers 
church. Their house is the happy resort of their "folks." 



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W — VII —3. 
HOUSTON W. LOWRY, D. D. 

was born January second, 1854, at the home of his maternal grandfather, 
James Davidson, and to- his mother in her widowhood. He attended 
public school in the neigbborhood and in 1870 he began to prepare for 
college at Poland Union Seminary, rooming with Mart Kimmel at Aiint 
Mai-y McJSfab's. Winters after the first he taught country school, and 
in 1874 he was the first to be graduated from the new preparatory de- 
partment of the Poland institution. In the fall of the same year he en- 
tered Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa., and finished the liberal 
arts course in 1878. The following school year he spent in Princeton 
Theological Seminary, and the remaining two years of the required course 
he took in the school of the prophets. The Western, in Allegheny, now 
North Side, Pittsburgh, Pa. He was licensed to preach by Mahoning 
presbytery in 18 80, and in 1881 after graduation at the seminary he was 
ordained by the presbytery of Kittanning and at the same time installed 
pastor of the Presbyterian church of Parker's Landing, Pa. Other pas- 
torates have been occupied since as follows: Wellsville, Ohio, 1885- 
1898; Wooster, Ohio, 1898-1904; Akron, Ohio, 1904-1914. Beginning 
with the first of November, 1914, he has been in charge of the Southern 
Presbyterian church of Carlsbad, New Mexico. In 19 03 he was given 
the doctor's degree by the College of Wooster. 

June 14, 1882, he miarried Blanche Lee, born in Poland, the daugh- 
ter of Bernard 'F. Lee. She is a graduate of fhe Poland Union Seminary, 
the school founded by her father. She also attended Oberlin College, 
musical"^department, and she has been the light of The Manse always. 

W-VII-3-a Ralph Manifold Lowry, born in Youngstown, Ohio, at the 

home of his uncle and aunt. Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Matthews. 
He took his preparatory course in Wooster and spent two 
years in the .college. He studied specially in the college 
conservatory of music. Along with his musical interest 
he engaged in nev/spaper work. At present he is member 
and organist and choirmaster of St. John's Episcopal 
church, Hartford, Connecticut, and is executive secretary of 
the state chamber of commerce. 

He was married to Sue Falls, of Newcastle, Pa., Sept. 4, 
1906, and they have two children: 
Jane Lee Lowry, born in New Castle, Pa. 
Frances Impy Lowry, born in Hartford, Conn. 



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W'-VII-S-b Bernard Ford Lowry, born in Parker's Landing, Pa. He 

is a graduate of Wooster Academy and finished the soph- 
omore year in the college. He then was admitted to Wil- 
liams College, Mass., and was graduated in 1906. In 
the meantime he engaged in business, but in 19 09 
entered the medical department o f Western Re- 
serve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and after graduation he 
became interne and, later, resident surgeon of the local 
City Hospital. At present he is engaged in general prac- 
tice at Cleveland. He married, July 13, 1915, Jean 
Shafer, of Akron, Ohio, and they have one child: 
Margaret Ann Lowry, given November 14, 1916, taken 
May ninth^^l920. Her fair little body rests in Lakeview 
Cemetery,' East Cleveland. 

W-VII-3-C Jessie McDowell Lowry, born in Poland, Ohio, at the home 

of her grandfather. She studied in the conservatory of 
music at Wooster and after graduation at Akron high 
school took special studies for two years in Buchtel College, 
now Akron University. She then took the course in the 
Carnegie Library School, Pittsburgh, and served as chil- 
dren's librarian in Pittsburgh and Cleveland. For a year 
she was engaged in war-savings work in Hartford, Conn., 
and at present she is assistant to the manager in Clifton 
Club, Lakewood, Cleveland, Ohio. 

W-VII-3-d Pauline King Lowry, given at Wellsville, Ohio, February 

tenth, 1889, taken June nineteenth the same year at Po- 
land. There her body lies asleep in the family plot. 



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JAMES JOHNBON LOWRY 

was born April twenty-second, 1825. He was born, lived and died on the 
homestead farm at Lowellville. At the age of sixteen he took charge of 
the farm which was the support of his mother and sisters, and in 1847 
received this farm from his father's estate. He was married August 
twenty-third, 184 9 to Margaret Smith. In 1874 he bought a second 
farm in Poland Township. He also acquired part of the Smith home- 
stead farm in Coitsville, and thus, as by his father before him, was to be 
provided a farm for each of his three sons. He engaged also in quarry- 
ing limestone in early days and later in coal mining, and served as admin- 
istrator, guardian, assignee and trustee of many estates. 

In politics he -was originally a Democrat but joined the Republican 
party upon its organization. He was trustee of Poland Township (1860- 
18 61) and (18 64-18 67); was several terms member of the Lowellville 
Board of Education, and Justice of the Peace (1890-1893). 

He united (1847) with the Poland Center Church; was elected an 
elder (18 61), and was leader of the choir at Poland Center. He went 
by certificate (18 65) to the Mahoning Church, and was elected elder 
(1865) for life. He was superintendent (1867-1877) of the Sabbath 
School, after which he taught a Bible class for many years. In 189 3 he 
was commissioner from Beaver Valley Presbytery to the General Assem- 
bly at Monmouth, Illinois. He died May fifth, 19 08, and is buried in 
the Lowellville cemetery. 



MARGARET S^IITH 

wife of James J. Lowry, was born January third, 182 8. Her father was 
Hezekiah Smith and her mother was Elizabeth Shields (Smith), both of 
whom were descended from early pioneer families. 

She united with the Deer Creek Church on June seventeenth, 1848. 
After her marriage she went hy certificate to Poland Center Church and 
later with her husband to the Mahoning Church, where she was a con- 
stant attendant at the church services. 

She died February twenty-fourth, 1911, of heart trouble, and is 
buried in the Lowellville Cemetery. 

She was generous to her friends, charitable to those she deemed 
worthy, and intensely loyal to her family. A slight, but life long, val- 
vular trouble of the heart caused her to prefer retirement and quiet and 
to find her chief enjoyment of life in the seclusion of her own home. 

James J. Lowry and Margarel Smith (Lowry) had three sons: 



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w — VI^ — 1. 

WILLIAM ALONZO LOWRY 

was born February twenty-seventh, 1851. He attended the Poland Un- 
ion Seminary for several terms, and married, September thirteenth, 1877, 
Margaret Nessle Davidson, of Lowellville. After his marriage he lived 
for one year on the Davidson farm east of Lowellville and next on the 
Lowellville home farm, and then upon the Poland Township farm, which 
he received from his father, until 1898, when he retired and moved to 
Youngstown, Ohio, where he still resides. 

There is one daughter: 

W-VIII-1-a Lovinah Harriet Lowry, a graduate of Rayen High School 

was for some years in the general offices of the Youngs- 
town & Southern Railway Company, Youngstown, Ohio. 
At present she has place with a Youngstown bank. 



w — vin — a. 

SMITH LOWRY 

was born December fifteenth, 1854, and married December fourteenth, 
X876, Sallie Price, New Bedford, Pa. They lived on a part of the 
Lowellville home farm. He died May fifteenth, 1878, following a surgi- 
cal operation and is buried in the Deer Creek graveyard. 

His widow married, second, James C. MacNab, son of Robert Mac- 
Nab, of Pulaski, who is in the real estate and insurance business at New 
Castle, Pa. 



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w — vin — 3. 

L. H. E. LOWRY 

was born January first, 18 63, and was unmarried. He prepared for col- 
lege (1880-1883) at the Western Reserve Preparatory School, Hudson, 
Ohio, attended (1883-1884) Adelbert College, Cleveland, Ohio, and was 
graduated (A. B. 1888) at the University of Michigan. He read law 
(1888-1889) in Youngstown with John H. Clarke, now justice in the 
supreme court of the United States, was admitted to the bar (1889) and 
practiced law afterward at Youngstown, Ohio. 

He was a member (1896-1912) of the Lowellville Presbyterian 
Church; trustee (1898-1908) of that congregation, and after 1912 was 
a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Youngstown, Ohio. 

He was a member of the Ohio State Bar Association; Past Master 
and Treasurer of Hillman Lodge No. 481 F. & A. M.; Past H. P. of 
Youngstown Chapter No. 9 3 R. A. M.; Junior Warden of Hiram Lodge, 
Scottish Rite; a member of St. John's Commandary No. 20 Knight Tem- 
plars, Youngstown, Ohio, and of Lake Erie Consistory, Cleveland, Ohio, 
and a director and chairman of the finance committee of the Masonic 
Temple Company. He was also a member of the Youngstown Club, and 
president of the Lowellville Savings & Banking Company, and was the 
owner of the Lowellville homestead farm. To his industrious interest 
the friends owe the Lowry annals. His health failed for some years, 
and August twelfth, 1917, in City Hospital, Youngstown, he passed away. 
Memorial service was conducted in the Masonic Temple, two orders of 
Masons participating and at his request Houston W. Lowry having charge 
for the church. His body was cremated, as he provided, and the ashes 
were laid beside the dust of his father and mother in Lowellville 
cemetery. 



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W — IX. 
ELIZABETH LOWRY 

was born November nineteenth, 1827, and was married September fifteen- 
th, 1853, to James Davidson Smith, a farmer at Villa Marie, Lawrence 
County, Pa. She was admitted to the Poland Center Church May eighth, 
1847, and after her marriage transferred her membership to the Deer 
Creek Church. She was a small woman, having the characteristic brown 
hair and blue eyes of our family and is said to have been the beauty of 
the Lowellville family. She died November thirteenth, 18 6 6, and is 
buried in the Deer Creek graveyard. 

Some years after her death her widower married Eliziabeth Buchanan, 
Washington County, Pa., by whom he had two sons, Paul B. H. Smith, 
M. D., Lowellville, Ohio, and Thomas F. B. Smith, Presbyterian minister, 
York, Nebraska. 

James Davidson Smith and Elizabeth Lowry Smith had four sons: 



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W — IX — 1. 
JOHN Wn^LIAM SMITH 

was born January fifteenth, 1855, and married January first, 1897, Ella 
Buchanan, of Washington County, Pa. They resided until 1893, on a 
farm at Lawrence, Kansas, and then moved to the farm at Rea, Washing- 
ton County, Pa., on which he still resides. 

He joined, (1870) the Deer Creek Church, and is now a member of 
the Hickory United Presbyterian Church. 

Ella Buchanan Smith, died April twenty-second, 1912, and there is 
one son: 

W-IX-l-a James Leonard Smith, born March twelve, 1883, a graduate 
of Hickory (Pa.) High School and Eastman Business Col- 
lege, Pittsburgh, Pa., married Elsie Mabel Taggart( born 
January second, 1885) of Buffalo, Pa., Dec. 14, 1911, and 
is a farmer, Rea, Washington County, Pa. 

They have three children: 

William Kenneth MeBride Smith, born March 5, 1913. 
Matthew Maxwell Smith, born May 14, 1915. 
Ruth Kathleen Smith, born Jan. 17, 1919. 



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W — IX — 2. 
ALBERT E. SMITH 

■wa.s born July fifteenth, 1858, and married November twenty-fourth, 
1885, Ida Evans, of Lawrence, Kansas. They live upon a farm at Law- 
rence, where he is engaged in horse and mule raising, and is Vice Presi- 
dent of the Kansas City Horse Stockyards. He was early a member of 
the old Deer Creek Church. 



W — IX — 3. 
ELLIS IR\1N SMITH 

was born May tenth, 18 61, and married November seventh, 188 3, Olive 
Elizabeth McCune, of New Castle, Pa. They lived on the home farm at 
Villa Marie, Pa. He and his wife were members of the Deer Creek 
and both of them sang in the choir for many years. 

He was killed October sixteenth, 1909, in a street railway accident 
at Covers Corners, Youngstown, Ohio. He left no children, and his wife 
Is now the wife of Rev. John W. Gealey, Stockton, California. 



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W — IX — 4. 
JA^^ffiS LOWRY SMITH 

was born April fifteenth, 1865, and married, September second, 1896, 
Manie McClanalian, of O'Neil, Nebraska. He farmed in Kansas for two 
years and then went to Nebraslia, where he played base ball. He moved 
(1896) to Wilmot, South Dakota, and engaged in farming and three years 
later located a homestead at Summit, South Dakota, which home he still 
occupies. 

He has held the office of School Treasurer for several years. They 
have two daughters: 

"W-IX-4-a Olive Smith, a graduate of the Summit High School, Sum- 

mit, South Dakota. 

W-IX-4-b Hazel Smith, a student in the Summit High School, Sum- 

mit, South Dakota. 



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POLAND UNION SEMINABY 



In view of the frequent reference to Poland Union Seminary and of 
the educational advantages it served numerous members of the Lowry 
family in general some account may well ibe given of its life and work. 

The Seminary was situated at Poland village, two and a half miles 
from Poland Center. It was founded by Mr. B. F. Lee in his young man- 
hood, and as long as he lived it was thoroughly sustained. At the be- 
ginning it suffered and enjoyed rivalry, owing to a similar institution pro- 
moted across the creek by his brother Jacob, but there was a merger at 
length, and the combination had memorial in "Union" of the name. 

To its fostering care many a boy and girl were attracfed as a neigh- 
boring interest and in its halls were inspired to enter the loftier ranks of 
learning. Ministers, lawyers, physicians and teachers were the lavish 
harvest in the end, and finest material for their wives was discovered 
and enlisted with the academy acquaintance. A long catalog could 
be supplied of names enrolled in the school and, later, to become eminent 
in business and church and state. Among them, aside from the frequent 
Lowry, were Sexton, Kirtland, Hine, Mansfield, Morse, Nesbit, Cornelius, 
Kennedy, Matthews, but preeminent was William McKinley, president of 
the United States, and next to him, perhaps, was his appointee, William J. 
Calhoun, to investigate conditions in Cuba and recommend war with 
Spain, and later to serve as ambassador to China. 

Intimately associated with Mr. Lee in the life of the institution was 
the Rev. Algernon Sydney MacMaster, D. D., pastor of the Poland Presby- 
terian church. With his learning, kindliness and dignity he served ad- 
mirably as president of the board of trustees and committed it to the or- 
ganic care of Mahoning Presbytery. Nor was it the least advantage of 
the Seminary pupils away from home to come into personal friendship 
with him and to sit under his pulpit ministrations from Sabbath to Sab- 
bath. And Principals came and went, but Miss Eliza Blakelee held 
for a full generation, and to her personal quality and professional 
skill were to be traced deepest impression for good with all in 
her charge and their high standing out in the world. President McKin- 
ley testified that to her he ovv^ed more than to any other teacher. Po- 
land Union Seminary ceased, but the mission it accomplished will count 
favorably and forever. 

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THE OLD HOMESTEADS. 



"There is a plain old house in the hills, * *, overlooking the valley, 
* * * where truth and honor dwelt in my youth. When I go back, as I 
am about to go, to spend my declining years, I mean fo go with the feel- 
ing that I can say I have not failed to speak and to act in accordance 
with the lessons that I learned there from the God of my fathers." 

Likewise there were three conditions that formed the character of 
our ancestors and of ourselves: — the farm, the school and the church. 



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PIONEER ANCESTORS 



The early generations of our American ancestors were farmers and 
their wives, the independent owners of their lands. 

They honored the creative intention and cultivated the life outdoors. 
They breathed the fresh air of the morning. From the plot known as 
"the clearing" they gathered wholesome food to satisfy their hunger. 
They quenched their thirst with the water from the underlying rock. 
With patience they endured the heat of summer and the cold of winter. 
They looked up to the starry heavens at night and turned to the refresh- 
ing sleep of a wearied body and a quiet conscience. 

Thus they had health to enjoy the natural favors of Providence. 
They had strength to brave the hardships inevitable to their life in the 
wilderness. Besides, they had common sense to look upon the realities 
of their lot with genuine appreciation and address its problems with hear- 
ty courage and good cheer. 

And when their lives were lived and their work done, they faded 
from the world, so many of them suffering only the natural infirmities of 
age and dying as the oak in the fullness of their years. They were little 
to be grieved for at their going. With them there was but happy transi- 
tion to the better life beyond. Goodness and mercy followed them all 
their days, and they were to dwell in the house of the Lord forever. 



One hundred 



THE LOG CABIN 



Their first habitation was a log cabin, and while they cleared the 
land and became settled in life it served them as good shelter. At 
length it yielded place to the log house for a home but survived as work- 
shop for the women folk. There the fruits of summer were dried for 
the winter table. There "Caper" traveled the continous web of the dog- 
churn. There were the spindles and reels for preparing the flax and the 
wool for the loom, and there the yarn was wroughT into home-spun and 
the rags into carpet. There the "mince and meat" was put into shape 
and storage for many a meal's rich desert, and the wicks strung on rods 
were dipped in molten tallow to issue from their frequent immersion 
finally as candles; and there the soap to become hard was shaped and left 
to dry. Our ancestors were a self-sufficient people. 

The log cabin lingers in the memory of some of us yet living, a dim 
painting in the twilight, a story kept from childhood, a link with sleepy 
prayer at bedside, but the builders of it and those who worked in it and, 
busy with their hands, brooded thoughts of generations to come and of 
heaven after all have gone back to their native dust or have passed on 
to wait for our coming in the Kingdom of the Father. 



One hundred and am 



THE liOG HOUSE 



The meager log cabin surrendered sooner or later to the big log 
house, occupying best location and forming a group with the barn and 
woodshed. It boasted a cellar with apple and potato bins, and some- 
where in a corner was the barrel with sweet cider. And there was an 
attic open to the roof, the delight of the children on a wet day. The 
rafters were hung with herbs medicinal, catnip with the rest, and often 
aside there was a chest of maple sugar. There was storage, too, for 
castoff things to be discovered later as heirlooms. Really the attic had 
a cinch on the cellar — in some ways. 

The main rooms on the first floor were, after all, the home. There 
was the kitchen productive of magic meals, and it often served as dining- 
room to be heated by the cooking stove. Accommodations certainly were 
provided pioneer appetite. Perhaps the sitting-room was best. There 
the social life of our people centered for the family and furnished set- 
ting for quilting bees, and if there was not a best room besides for par- 
ties and courtships and weddings and funerals there was plenty space for 
circles round the fireplace for popping corn and finis'hing a pail of apples 
with the evening. And there was the bedroom at right or left with great 
fourposters and the trundle-bed beneath. Feathers? A huge 

tick of them; and blankets and comforts and quilts! and a coverlet for 
style, woven at Cadiz and rare with shapes and tints of trees and birds 
and houses. Anyway it was home, /and it served as a kind of heaven. 



One hundred and Iwo 



THE HOUSE YARD 



Around the dwelling was the yard, where the bittersweet clambered 
to the top of the pine tree, and the morning glory twisted its many-color- 
ed beauty along the picket fence, and the oldfashioned roses with spring 
gave out brilliance and fragrance, and perhaps a bunch of ribbon grass 
or "spargrass" or of yellow or purple flags in bloom decked the rich turf. 
Our ancestors were fond of the beautiful things of nature. 

Behind the house was the back yard, dotted with the bakeoven and 
ashhopper, and across its surface many a fat porker took the fatal jour- 
ney from the pen to the smokehouse. There many a gay young rooster 
suffered sacrifice to hospitality, and the bee-gum yielded dividends of 
sweet clover honey. And there were glimpses at the rear of the gor- 
geous peacock or fussy guinea fowl. 

Trees certainly added their rich setting to the scene. There was 
possibly a hedge of privet at front or side. And surely there were arbor- 
vitae or hemlock or spruce or elm about to soften the glare of the sun 
and serve as harps or viols or trumpets for the wind to play on or to 
rest the eye. How much it meant with nooning in harvest time to loll 
in the shade or get glimses of the blue beyond! The yard with any 
other feature of the home meant life. 



fine hcndi'ec! an.l three 



THE GARDEN 



Over the picket fence was the garden through which a path, border- 
ed by pinks and hollyhocks and sweet Williams, and by the flower which 
turns its face to the sun as our ancestors turned their hearts toward God, 
led down among the cabbage plants and "salad" beds and the "cowcum- 
ber" vines and the rhubarb patch to the lilac bush by the barnyard gate. 

Our ancestors had no need of a fruit garden, for the blackberry and 
raspberry grew wild among the stumps; and the elder bush took possession 
of the rail fence corners; the dewberry crept out over the hillside; the 
wild strawberry was to be liad for the picking, and the huckleberry flour- 
ished in the swamps on the water-sheds, but the blacksnake stretched 
himself on the "stony batter," and the venomous copperhead lurked in the 
brambles as the "snake in fhe grass" has done in gardens from time im- 
memorial. 

The garden is well enough as field for survey at fhe distance of 
long years, but there were doubtless boys at the time to take it as sug- 
gestive of anything except the original Eden, Weed-pulling was no pic- 
nic, and when the labor was accompanied by the beat of a blazing sun 
only the reward of early peas or berry shortcake or buttered roasting 
ears could soften the memory. 

One handred and four 



THE ORCHARD 



On the other side of the house was the orchard, where the thieving 
robin risked his life in the black cherry tree, and the blue jay quarrelled 
with his neighbors generally; where the apple trees were splendid with 
their blossoms in the spring time and more splendid with their harvest of 
fruit, recalled best as brown Russets and greasy Pippins and striped 
Rambos and golden Gates and Rhode Island Greenfngs. There were 
heaps to be gatnered under the branches, and while the inferior speci- 
mens were hauled to the cider mill the best were "holed" for winter or 
put into the cellar. Peaches were not altogether wanting, but from visit 
of frost or blight of bug they were an uncertain crop. Plums, Damson 
with the rest, perhaps in the dooryard, and pears; yes, pears Seckle or 
Bartlet lent variety and wealth to the harvest. 

Out in the clearing was the wild cherry to stain cheeks and pucker 
mouths, and the crabapple famous for bloom or preserves vied with the 
red plum for jelly, and the wild grape covered the dogwood with leaves 
to change from green to crimson and purple, and the hazel bushes in the 
angle of the rail fence lurked with tiny treasures for the happy boy; and 
the walnut tree at the head of the lane tempted him to tan his fingers a 
thorough brown. Nature all round was lavish with benefits. 



Onehundred and five 



THE OLD BAHN 



Not far from the house was the old log barn, flanked by the sheep 
sheds and the slatted corn cribs, in front of which the men pitched horse 
shoes and the children played "hop scotch" in the dusty road. On the 
big barn floor the sheep were sheared, the flax was scutched, the rj'^e was 
flailed, and the buckwheat and the barley were threshed by the trampling 
feet of horses. 

There were "chores" to do at the barn. The cows had to be 
brought home when the rising sun glistened on the morning dew and 
again at the sunset milking time. "Bill" and "Charley," the work team 
must be watered and fed and curried at foddering time and the stables 
cleaned and the stalls bedded with fresh straw, for our forefathers were 
merciful to their beasts. 

But there were eggs to be hunted in the barn, and the swallows 
with nests planted high overhead flitted about. The youngsters, too, 
found best resort among the mows and mangers for playing "hide and 
seek" and other indoor games as old as childhood. And they climbed 
the ladders and walked the dizzy beams and hung by the rafters. Their 
surplus energy had to be worked off somehow, and the barn was early 
gymnazium to be kept in happy review always. 



One hundred and six 



THE HOMESTEAD FARM 



From the barnyard, where the gobbler spread his tail, a lane ran 
back to the woods out of which "Buck" and "Berry" sledded crosscut logs 
to the mill, whose upright saw was driven by a waterwheel. At the end 
of the lane was a pasture where "Old Brindle" grazed and chewed her 
cud among the "johnny-jump-ups'^. Along the lane ran the cultivated 
fields. The corn rustled in the sultry air. The beardy wheat headed 
out and turned yellow for the sickle. The clover grew red with blos- 
soms and became the domain of the warrior bumble-bee, who put bare- 
legged invaders to flight. The timothy meadow waved in the breeze and 
the bob-o-link sang himself out of the sky to perch on the goldenrod. 

The sweated farmers swung the cradle and the scythe in many a race 
to cut their swath to the far side and back to the buttermilk can. There 
were "litle shavers" to keep the supply of drink plenty, and they learned 
at length to rake the rows and bind the sheaves. And when the light- 
ning zigzagged from the storm-cloud many a last load was jolted along 
the lane with the horses speeded to a trot or even run and in a narrow es- 
cape from the wind and rain of the thunder shower was pulled up clat- 
tering upon the floor of the barn. 



One hundred and »even 



THE WILDERNESS 



It was not all a life of toil with our early folk. Beyond the farm 
was the wilderness where they found utility along with their sport. 

At the edge of the clearing was the sugar camp where the sap drip- 
ped from the maple into troughs and with the use of oxen and a sled and 
barrel found its way to kettles for boiling down. And who can forget 
the "stirring off night" and the taffy dipped from the mass with a wooden 
spoon and cooled and hardened in the snow and then pulled white for a 
flavor and consistency too fine for words? And when a big run was on 
and the boiling went with night there were eggs to be sneaked from the 
barn, and even a hen was sure to be claimed for sacrifice, and relief of 
appetite was furnished with fowl feast. 

Deer browsed along the creeks or haunted the saltlicks. The gray 
squirrel foraged among the shellbarks and proved tempting as game. 
After frost and wind chestnuts lay thick under the spreading tree. The 
pheasant whirred through the hemlock thickets along Pine Hollow, and 
the bobwhite lurked within the grain stubble and raised his whistle. 
The wild duck loitered along the streams, and the wild pigeons in the 
semi-annual flight fairly clouded the air above with their host, and the 
wild geese with their orderly procession honked their way well out of 
gun-shot reach. And there was the river to be dimpled at the evening 
dusk with leaping bass and perch. What were all the sights and sounds 
but rare enchantment? 



One hundred and eight 



THE DISTRICT SCHOOL 



Our fathers and mothers went to school for any winter term and 
found it a kind of vacation from summer toil. But it was not all fun. 
There was the stout beech gad to enforce discipline, and one qualification 
of the teacher was a stout arm with nerve. Sometimes there was rebel- 
lion, and he was barred out for good behavior or a candy treat. 

But there was many a superior specimen to board round by the day 
or week and make life-friends in tTie families; and prepare for college 
and the ministry or law or medicine, earning his way winters and keeping 
on with his studies as he might. With his kind he was instrumental in 
forming the very backbone of our American democracy. 

School really meant work. Reading, writing and arithmetic made 
enough. The Bible served long as textbook for elocution and literature, 
but at last it was reserved for morning devotions with prayer, and Mc- 
guffy and his kind came into service, speller and all. For writing there 
was only the quill pen, and there were instructions in the Western Calcu- 
lator, containing the rule of three, and with its help the pupils learned 
to figure out anything from the pitch of a roof to the tonnage of a hay- 
stack . 

With recess or noon besides any lunch there were games. The 
girls played, circling and singing, and the boys splashed -along the creek 
or engaged in three-old-cat or prisoner's base. And there was banter 
with a stick on one fellow's shoulder and a dare to another, and the bat- 
tles of life were often practised in front of the school house — or behind. 
Truly there was preparation for service, and a good account was given 
later. 

Onehundred and nine 



THE NEIGHBORHOOD 



Our pioneers nei/ghbored ("morrowed," in their word) and gather- 
ed at log rollings and barn raisings and at huskings, where a red ear 
ear took the place of mistletoe at Christmas. Card playing, theatrical 
shows and promiscuous dancing were strictly tabood as on the broad way 
to perdition, and even circuses were looked on with grave suspicion. 
Preferences were given spelling bees and singing schools and literary so- 
cieties, combining instruction with sociability, and there were parties for 
the young folks allowing for generous, happy informality. And there 
were monthly prayer-meetings, the social worship sandwiched between 
interests not at all devotional. 

They tilted over the snow drifts in the big sled or plouted through 
the mud on horse back for an all day visit and a chicken dinner at some 
old homestead, where the latch string was always out. The women 
washed the fine old brown ware dishes, and over their knitting, gossiped 
mildly about the young man who was waiting on "Peggy." The men 
looked the steers over and talked crops. Seated on the oak settee and in 
the calico covered rocking chairs, they spoke of the widow and the orphan 
and those under affliction and help was given as help was needed; for our 
ancestors were good neighbors. 



One hundred and ten 



THE WEDDING 



But it took the wedding to bring personal treasures out of the wal- 
nut bureau. There were the plug hat and the long or even swallow- 
tailed coat, reserved for high occasions and odorous of camphor. And 
there were the gold bracelets and earrings and shell combs and cameo 
breastpins and, perhaps, a locket with a chain, and there were the silk 
dresses retained from other, original wedding days. 

The ceremony was simple, and it was usually conducted at the home 
of the bride. The day following there was an "infare" given at the 
home of the groom. Gayety and feasting abounded, and many an inno- 
cent joke was perpetrated upon the happy pair. Sooner or later, (spe- 
cially sooner) there was the impromptu and unwelcome serenade. Guns 
and tin pans and dinner horns and cowbells and other instruments of 
torture were included, but the main weapon was a horsefiddle. It was 
made out of a big store box keyed up with ropes and played with a resin- 
ed scantling across the open edges, and it was enough to raise the dead. 
The band was composed of any uninvited to the wedding, and there was 
no escape from their nuisance except with a treat. 

Last of all in the series of marital events the bride and groom 
"made their appearance". The interest took place on the Sabbath fol- 
lowing the ceremony, when the newly wedded couple in their bridal ar- 
ray appeared at church, coming late and marching in state along the main 
aisle and occupying a front seat and for the time distracting attention 
even from the sermon. All that remained was to settle down serenely 
to the joys and sorrows of iheir homestead life. Once joined, to be 
sure, only death put them asunder. 

Om hundrtd and eleoen 



FAMILY WORSHIP 



Each day was opened and each day was closed with family worship. 
A Psalm of David was sung; ,a chapter from Holy Scripture in its order 
was read, and in the posture of kneeling a prayer was offered up to the 
Heavenly Father. No meal was served without the blessing asked and 
thanks returned. Our forbears were a devout ^people. 

The standards of their religious life were the inspired word of God; 
the Westminster Confession, studied as a system of comprehensive, un- 
changeable doctrine; the Shorter Catechism, learned by heart and recited 
regularly Sabbath evenings, and the book of Government and Discipline 
to be honored with strict observance as a means of conserving the King- 
dom of Heaven. And there were the periodic visits of the pastor to in- 
sure that religion be vital with the family. 

Christmas and Easter were not in the almanac of our forefathers, 
but they remembered the Sabbath day to keep it holy. They lived per- 
ceptibly in the atmosphere of the Old Covenant faith and practice and 
along with any love of God regarded him with reverential fear. A 
search of old book cases resulted in finding copies of the Psalms in va- 
rious versions and covers, Baxter's Saints' Best, Boston's Fourfold State, 
Young's Night Thoughts, Josephus, Pilgrim's Progress, Matthew Henry's 
Commentaries, but only in the more recent'' days did fiction appear as Un- 
cle Tom's Cabin, and any life of Christ had to wait till present genera- 
tions for available copies. 



One hundred and twelve 



PUBLIC WORSHIP 



The old forest church with its bough-covered "tent" and its log- 
hewed seats where our early people met unfailingly for worship has dis- 
appeared almost from the horizon of imagination. Even the simple 
frame sanctuary exists only in vague remembrance of its lofty pulpit, oc- 
cupied by the minister, and of the singing clerks in front to line out the 
Psalms and pitch the tunes with a fork and lead the congregation and 
have accompaniment of motley tones from sturdy youth to uncertain old 
age, from deep bass to high tenor. Organs were unknown; or if known, 
their use was forbidden. Prayer was Scriptural and fervent, always com- 
prehensive of pardon for sin and consecration to service and mindful of 
the sick and afflicted and of the world without God and hope. But the 
sermon was the main interest, and it was not more doctrinal than inter- 
minable and was brought home to hearts at the close with strict applica- 
tion and appropriate prayer. 

But worship was little over with the single session. There was wel- 
come "intermission." The people retired to shady nooks and fed the 
horses and spread the cloth and from the generous basket provided a sort 
of sacred picnic, for the small fry the happiest feature of the day. Per- 
haps they visited seriously in groups, but there was surely resort to the 
spring. It was the one promiscuous proceeding of the day. A line of 
approach was formed, and a pair of gallants served to dip from the cool 
depths and pass out cups to the waiting procession. Glances and smiles 
and even words were exchanged, and intimacies were budded to ripen 
later into matrimonial harvest. 

Afternoon worship followed, differing only from its antecedent per- 
haps with a shorter sermon. There was the closing benediction with its 
hush of peace, and there was hut the homeward journey with the declin- 
ing sun to deepen the impression of the day. 

One hundred and thirteen 



COMMUNION SEASON 



The Communion season was observed as a mountain-top ocoasion 
It began with "Fast Day" on Thursday, excluding worldly employment and 
recreation, limiting indulgence in food and requiring attendance a't church 
and closed with meeting Monday to baptize infants and worship with a 
touch of relaxation. On Saturday wias the strictly preparatory meeting. 
The session convened to examine candidates for membership or receive 
them from other churches, and a thorough inventory of faith and piety was 
conducted. After sermon the prospective communicants moved in order 
before the pulpit and received from the hand of the minister "tokens", 
preserving practice from the days of persecution in Scotland and entitling 
holders to a seat next day at the Lord's table. 

But Sabbath was the high day. The attendance was sure to be 
large, and the interest intense. After sermon the minister took his place 
on a level with the people and with the elders at their convenient stations 
invited communicants to share the Sacrament, and with warning for un- 
worthy professors to avoid eating and drinking damnation he "fenced the 
tables." Then a Psalm was announced, and as it was sung the members 
came forward as families, parents leading and sons and daughters follow- 
ing in the order of their ages. As they were seated, the tokens were col- 
lected from secure vestpockets or knotted handkerchiefs; the prayer of 
consecration was offered over the elements; the cubes of unleavened bread 
and the cup as several goblets were passed, and an exhortation was deliv- 
ered. Then the tables were emptied and filled anew till all were served, 
and even mere witnesses, youthful as many were, received impressions to 
make for godliness evermore. 

One hundred and fourteen 



THE BURIAL CHURCHYAKD 



When eyes grew dim and hearts beat slow and faint none were neg- 
lected. They had friends to sit by or wait with tender hands for service, 
neighbors at the last or children to relieve loneliness and pain, to attend 
them to the valley and leave the Good Shepherd to go with them all the 
way. And as breath was gone and rest given they were shrouded by 
friends and covered with the homely bloom of the house garden. And 
watchers waited through the night, not always serious as the atmosphere 
of the room apart, and enjoying a feast within the long hours. On the 
day of the funeral, invariably at the home as with weddings, Psalms were 
sung with the Twenty-third ever included; a sermon was preached as 
memorial of the dead or appeal to the living; a prayer was lifted to Heaven 
for grace to bear the bereavement and learn good from every providence; in 
solemn procession the neighbors viewed the body, leaving the family for 
a little at the last with their precious dust; the lid was closed, and friend- 
ly hands carried the coffin along the front way to the ready hearse. The 
drive to the burial was conducted with the horses held to a walk and 
through a neighborhood hushed as on the Sabbath. The grave had been 
dug by volunters, and the body was lowered with the respect or pain of 
silence. Then came the words of committal, if any, and there was the 
invariable 'benediction. Sorrow had surest expression with the thud of 
clods upon the box below, but it was restrained by unfaltering belief in 
the resurrection through Jesus Christ to immortality. A stone appeared 
at length above he spot, and it bore name with dates of birth and death 
and possibly a verse of Scripture, but Father Time and Mother Nature 
have covered the mounds with the green grass, the bonnie briar and the 
wild rose, fitted better than monument of granite to mark the last resting 
place of the pioneer. 

One hundred and fifteen 



THE CONCLUSION 



The main characteristics of our ancestors were good health, comnaon 
sense, neighborly kindness, strict morals and abiding faith, and, of a 
truth, as the Psalmist says: — 



"More to be desired 
are these things than gold. 
Yea, than much fine gold. 
Sweeter are they than honey 
and the honey comb. 
Moreover, by these things 
is thy servant judged 
And the keeping of them 
is our great reward." 



One hundred and sixteen 



THE GOOD-BYE 



The writer of these sketches will be content if they will serve to 

bring back to your minds the thousands of sweet .and tender memories 

which are known only to yourselves and therefore could not be written 

here. 

L. H. E. L. 



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